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The north slope of the Somma-Vesuvius complex is archaeologically still little known. Archaeological and volcanologic field research at a site in the town of Pollena Trocchia offers new data for understanding the burying process of the AD 472 eruption and following eruptive events. So far seven rooms of a Roman building have been brought to light, which probably date to the 2nd/3rd century AD. The building consists of two storeys. The floors and the collapse of peripheral walls are the only remains of the upper floor. The lower storey was already severely damaged and spoliated before the AD 472 Vesuvian eruption which buried it. The exposed burial sequence is constituted by 7 stratigraphic units interlayered with paleosoils. Four units are exclusively composed of pyroclastic deposits deposi- ted during an explosive eruption. Three units are formed by volcanoclastic debris deposited during either the final phases of the erup- tion or sometime afterwards. The stratigraphic and lithological features, and the archaeological evidence correlate some of these strati- graphic units with known Vesuvian eruptions. In particular, the thick basal sequence that buried most of the building is associated with the reworking of pyroclastic deposits on the north side of the volcano during the last phases of the AD 472 eruption. The structures placed on top of the volcanoclastic deposit testify to a later phase of life, which was quickly interrupted by a subsequent eruption (pro- bably that of AD 512). The whole area was subsequently completely abandoned and covered by volcanoclastic and volcanic debris throughout the following centuries. The stratigraphic sequence attests the impact of secondary events (lahars) as the main cause of destruction and burial of the Roman building.