During work undertaken by the Sannio Alifano Land Reclamation Consortiuim three trenches were opened in the locality of Quattro Venti. A necropolis was revealed of which ten tombs were excavated, nine inhumations and one cremation, datable to between the 7th century B.C. and the first half of the 5th century B.C.

Of the first, six had a flat tile covering, two were covered with earth and one was simply covered with cobblestones. The tomb groups comprised two or three bucchero and buccheroid impasto vases of the type associated with banqueting. In the later burials there were also Attic black glaze or imitation Attic kylixes. Tomb 2 stands out for the ritual used and the richness of the grave goods. This was a secondary cremation of an adult male within a quadrangular pit containing circa thirty very fragmentary vases, including an impasto jar holding the remains of the deceased. The burial was covered by a tumulus of limestone rocks mixed with burnt vases, charcoal, fragments of iron skewers and a knife. The vase typology, mainly impasto and red bucchero of the Cales type, fixed the chronology to around the first half of the 7th century B.C.

A short distance away other remains emerged. These comprised the foundation of a wall made up of limestone rocks with a curving line delimiting a central area of baked clay. These features can be attributed to a dwelling datable to the 7th century B.C. that was destroyed and completely obliterated on one of the occasions when the nearby river Volturno broke its banks.