The University of Perugia, which has been conducting excavations here since 1995, has uncovered the remains of a 4th century B.C.E. sanctuary over which a ceramics factory was built in the late first century B.C.E.

The factory remained operational for about a century and made crockery known as terra sigillata (or sealed earth) named after the seal – sigillum – used to imprint decorative motifs on the ceramic objects. Aside from chalices, cups, plates and bowls with a smooth coral-red surface, they also manufactured lamps and bricks.

The 2,000 m2 area that has been uncovered to date has revealed some potters' stations, each one with a basin for clay, a wheel and a brazier. Other processes, such as clay purification and firing, were also carried out here. The ceramics made by the craftsmen from Scoppieto bear their signatures allowing scientists to trace a map of their distribution:  they were easily transported at low cost by the  Tiber River and then across the entire nearby Mediterranean basin. After the ceramics manufacturing activity ceased, the area became a residential zone until the 4th century C.E.