The Scheibler Area, on the western outskirts of Pisa, was the site of finds and rescue excavations during the 1980s. The evidence indicated a long settlement history, dating from the Iron Age to the early Medieval period, in this sector of the suburbia, which was crossed by the river Auser in antiquity. In particular, a recent re-examination of the materials from the old excavations led to the suggestion that there was a substantial complex in the area, perhaps a villa with associated pars rustica among the ruins of which a Lombard community later settled, also using the same area for funerary purposes.

The 2020 campaign (area 4), constituted the first programmed stratigraphic excavations carried out in the Scheibler Area, and aimed to evaluate the validity of the proposed hypotheses and to further define the periods and forms of occupation. The excavation revealed a good stratigraphic sequence: the structures and well-preserved floor surfaces of a rural building dating to the late Republican period; the structure was deliberately abandoned in the first decades of the imperial period, and at the same time a complex characterised by substantial walls and a water supply network with small tile-built channels was constructed. Between the 3rd and 4th century A.D. a series of floods caused the partial destruction of the complex.
During the 7th century A.D., the building of a structure in perishable materials, associated with the presence of amphora, imported Tunisian table-wares, and soapstone vessels, marks the temporary re-occupation of the site, until its destruction by another flood.