In the suburban area south of the ancient town of Acerrae, the remains came to light of a late antique necropolis and earlier structures (beaten earth roads, traces of cultivations, drainage ditches) connected to the agricultural exploitation of the territory.

The necropolis comprised 16 burials in “a cassa” tombs built of small tufa blocks, enchytrismòs in amphorae and “a cappuccina” tombs. The meagre grave goods in some tombs of the first type comprised vessels (a small globular jug, a jar and a small single handled vessel) with painted decoration dating to the first quarter of the 6th century A.D. The amphorae used for the burials of the second type, comparable to the forms Keay LII and LXII, were mostly datable to between the beginning of the 5th and the beginning of the 6th century A.D. These were sometimes associated with a small single handled vessel with painted decoration, of the type also present in one of the “a cappuccina” burials. The necropolis was situated along a beaten earth road, on a north-east/south-west alignment, its maximum width being 5 m. To the south it was bordered by a channel that was partially covered by a silty layer of volcanic origin relating to the so-called Pollena eruption of Vesuvius. The channel was circa 1.00 m in depth and width and crossed by cart ruts that were clearly visible in the eastern tract. The pottery recovered from the fill was no earlier than the 4th century A.D.

Going back in time, the presence of cultivation trenches attested that between the 1st century B.C. and the 1st century A.D. the area was perhaps occupied by shrubs. Between the 3rd-2nd century B.C. the land had been drained using two large drainage ditches, whose fill contained coarse ware pottery, black glaze ware and residual fragments of impasto dating to the middle Bronze Age occupation of the site.