Three excavation campaigns took place during 2001-2002 on the small tufa hill between the via Arco di Travertino, via Allumiere and the via Lanuvio. The excavation, which covered an area of circa 2100 sq.m, identified four phases of occupation. The earliest phase, pre-2nd century A.D., was attested by cuts in the tufa bed-rock, perhaps relating to the creation of corridors or underground structures. During phase two, 2nd century A.D., the area was occupied by a necropolis, which was robbed and altered in antiquity. The necropolis contained tile-covered graves (29 have been excavated) and a terracotta sarcophagus. From the position of the skeletons’ lower limbs it can be assumed that all the burials were aligned with the skull to the SE. Cremation, a practice still occasionally carried out in the 2nd century A.D., must have co-existed in the area alongside the inhumations. This is attested here by the presence of an ustrinum. This was a round pit covered by two overlapping bipedales, containing the remains of a cremation fire, the deceased having probably been buried elsewhere. All that was left were fragments of calcified bone, oxidized nails from the wooden funerary litter, pine cones, pine nuts and balsamari used in the funerary ritual. Phase three was a period of abandonment during which the cuts from phase one were filled, probably to level the area, with dumps of Roman material (black and white mosaic tesserae, wall plaster with wattle imprints, terracotta tubes, bricks and fragments of pottery) and the residue from the disturbance of the tombs themselves (bones and inscriptions). The area seems to be re-occupied only in the 20th century, as shown by deposits of building materials relating to the demolition, in the 50-60s of a complex of shacks, which are documented on the local land register maps. (Alessio Capponi, Giordana Evangelista)