In the locality of Fabbrica (along the via Vergini, on the Di Muccio property) structures were uncovered that can be attributed to a Roman villa rustica . Situated on a terrace it can probably be associated with other walls a short distance away that were discovered in the past. Datable to between the end of the 2nd century and the 1st century B.C. these show the existence of a vast rustic-residential settlement situated in the foothill area and used for the agricultural exploitation of the territory.

Along the slope below a pit/ditch was identified which may have been related to a small clay quarry. This was filled with dumped material datable to between the end of the 7th and the mid 6th century B.C. The characteristics of the recognisable vessel forms, the abundance of plain buff ware and cooking wares recovered, the lack of homogeneity among the fragments and, in particular, the presence of a kiln stacking ring suggests that this was a midden for a settlement, perhaps linked to the contemporary necropolis situated in the locality of Cimitero-Croce Santa Maria.

Further finds were made during work for the replacement of the water pipes in the territory of Alife, managed by the Land Reclamation Consortium of Sannio Alifano. In the locality of Conca d’Oro a new sector of a known necropolis, excavated by the Egg family in 1880-1884, was identified. Here fourteen burials were excavated, datable to between the 6th – 4th century B.C. and divided into two distinct nuclei. Seven tombs had already been excavated, perhaps at the end of the 1800s, and were without skeleton or grave goods. The other seven were intact earth graves, except for one which was an “a cassa” tomb built of tiles. The simple tomb groups comprised two or three bucchero vases for the earliest burials, black glaze ware for the later ones and a few objects of personal ornament, usually two or three iron and/or bronze fibulae.