Page "Ajaccio" Paragraph 9

In the 20th century the hill was covered over with buildings and became a part of downtown Ajaccio.

In 2005 construction plans for a lot on the hill offered the opportunity to the Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventatives ( Inrap ) to excavate.

They found the baptistry of the 6th century cathedral and large amounts of pottery dated to the 6th and 7th centuries AD ; in other words, the early Christian town.

A cemetery had been placed over the old church.

In it was a single Roman grave covered over with roof tiles bearing short indecipherable inscriptions.

The finds of the previous century had included Roman coins.

This is the only evidence so far of a Roman city continuous with the early Christian one.