On the 2th century B.C. new settlers arrived at Olisipo coming from the powerful city of Rome. The military conquest phase is rapidly replaced by commercial, social and cultural contacts.

NARC is located west of the city, in a place where people probably used to cross the small affluent. Between the last three decades of the 1st century B.C. and the mid 1st century A.D., which is to say for about one century, the area was used as a necropolis, the oldest roman cemetery known in Lisbon.

Several burial artifacts were found in eight graves along with an incineration grave and four areas used for incineration. The anthropological study revealed the presence of three infants, who had succumbed at birth, two children, a girl about 15 years old, a young man in is twenties and two adults, a man and a woman both of advanced age.