Excavations undertaken at corso di Porta Romana 47 have brought to light an archaeological sequence articulated in ten phases. Several parallel furrows and post holes provide the earliest traces of occupation (phase I). Phase II is attested by a cobbled surface of uncertain date, probably a road. It is orientated in the same NW-SE direction as the phase I furrows. Successively, in phase III the area presents numerous holes of unknown function and fills of material brought in from elsewhere; two drainage ditches are the only evidence of any building activity on the site. Finds from this phase include roman pottery and fragments of La Tène period pottery. In the Republican period (phase IV) the area was abandoned and filled with a uniform layer of earth to form a terrace. The earliest use of the area as a necropolis (phase V) dates to the end of the 1st century B.C. - beginning of the 1st century A.D., the burials being cremations contained within truncated amphora and in urns placed directly in the ground. This phase is followed, after some reorganization of the area using rubble from elsewhere (phase VI), by a second phase of the necropolis datable to the early Imperial period (phase VII). This consists of 35 tombs some of which had already been opened in antiquity. Various typologies are present: direct and indirect cremations, inhumations interred both directly in the ground and in tile or wooden coffins. At least ten holes have been identified which were left by the removal of the burials (probably of Imperial date) they contained (phase VIII). Successively, in phase IX, the entire area became the object of intense building work. The presence of numerous rubble layers leads to the assumption that structures existed here of which no traces remain. The final phase (phase X), datable from the medieval to modern day periods, is attested by cellars with lime tanks and a well, structures which have obviously undergone various stages of rebuilding. (Anna Ceresa Mori)