At about 600m from the ritual site of the middle bronze age another large pit was found. The impasto and plain ware vessels within it can be placed in the mid late Bronze Age (beginning of the second half of the 2nd millenium B.C.) and fit within the Appenine typology. The archaeological context consists of a large pit (5 x 4 x 1.20m: structure 1) cut into the clay bedrock. It is sub-oval in shape with walls tapering inwards towards its floor. The stratigraphic sequence within was made up of black and brown soils and baked clay and contained pottery vessels of various forms which attest its use as a dwelling. The carinated bowls, axe-shaped handles with triangular perforation, notched lug handles, vessels with impressed or notched cordon decoration, a funnel-shaped filter and body sherds with incised motifs are typical of the Appenine type pottery. To the east of structure 1, running transversely to the pipe trench on a N-S axis, was a channel with parallel but uneven sides tapering towards the bottom. Its fill provided a simple stratigraphic sequence and seemed to have already been sealed in antiquity, as was structure 1. There are no traces, even at surface level, of any material later than the Appenine type in either structure. The only signs of disturbance are a few plough marks visible on the surface level of structure 1. The pottery and lithics, including tools in grey flint and obsidian, from the fill of the channel (structure2), show signs of water erosion. It seems likely, given the typological uniformity of the pottery, that the structures were contemporary in use and abandonment. (Maria Luisa Nava)