Based on the data, picked beginning of 2011 up to the last investigation of the field, led in July of 2017, it has been possible to hypothesize the layout of the Appia, through the recognition of some features, either as fossil or as survival in the ordinary practicability and in particular way with the individualization of two sites for which it doesn't seem hazardous to identify with the toponimis mentioned in the Tabula Peutingeriana, in Calorem, on the base of an anomalous quantity of materials distributed in a surrounded area, near Ponte Rotto, and Nuceriola in the neighborhoods of Masseria Grasso. The area in which were found, interested since the half IV B. C. handmade articles in burials and places of cult, aroad has been traced whose extension is 14 meters and whose total width is 19 pedes (5,6 m). The most ancient frequenting levels date the beginning of the infrastructure between the end of the IV and the beginning of III century B. C. or more likely connected to the foundation of the Latin colony Beneventum (268 B. C.). The succession of ground levels, which testify interventions of maintenance reiterated at least up to Late- Ancient times, witnesses its use in time. The road, leading N 42 E, presents the same territorial conformation of the agricultural divisions of the first Latin colony (16x25 actus) and, late, of the triumviral-augusteus one (20x20 actus), recognized also through the conservation of alignments, iso-oriented traces and fossil shapes that can lead to themselves.

One of the validation tests of 2015 has led to value the presence of a productive area in the North-West of the road. This is an hypothesis confirmed also during the campaign of excavation on July 2016.
The surface considered is occupied by a productive area used for environments and zones of working where there are at least two furnaces (almost certain the presence of a third one). The idea of ceramic’s production is strongly supported by the ruines and rests found (handmade pieces, with manufacturing faults, production waste). The mentioned activity arises between the age of Augustus and Tiberius and the middle- I century.

​The presence of areas for production, the passage of streets, the organization of the territory, the material’s quantity and quality and their distribution, highlighted in the survey of surface, seem to confirm the strategic list of Nuceriola as key point of the territorial organization on the territory of Benevento, at least from the IV century B. C.

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