During restoration of the church of S. Valentino at Funes and the laying of a drainage channel, a careful investigation was undertaken of the area outside the church. Numerous walls were uncovered, the overall interpretation of which is made difficult by recent disturbance and the scarcity of finds, which date from the late Roman to the medieval period. The structures were concentrated in the northern sector of the excavation. Here, over an area of a few square metres, seven separate walls were excavated, all lying below the enclosure wall of the church. The earliest phase comprises a make-up, several post-holes and three walls, all covered by the same layer of burning. Comparison of the walls seems to indicate that they formed part of a single building, that either ajoined or was completed by wooden structures. Phase two is composed a series of walls placed on top of the earlier ones, an indication that the phase one building was not completely demolished, and that there was a relatively short interval between the partial demolition of phase one and the construction of the phase two building. Phase three corresponds to the construction of the church ("Perhaps as early as 1090, but in any case mentioned in 1303" according to J. Weingartner, Die Kunstdenkmäler Südtirols, Bd. 1, Bozen-Innsbruck-Wien 1985, S. 329). Two burials, the enclosure wall and the stone paving in front of the west entrance belong to the latest phases, which are followed by modern disturbance.