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 In 1923 a small cluster of tombs was found on the northern side of the Isola Sacra. The tombs are close to Portus, approximately 150 metres to the south-west of the Basilica of Saint Hippolytus. In antiquity the tombs formed a whole with the other graves of the necropolis, the "100 tombs". They are at a distance of a few hundred metres from those tombs.
The name of this cluster, the Canal Tombs, has been given by Roman Ports, because of its location so near by the Canal of Traianus (the 'Fossa Traiana').

• Sources
• Russel Meigs - Roman Ostia, At the Clarendon Press 1973
• Guido Calza - Necropoli nell'Isola Sacra'(1940)
• Dr. Jan Theo Bakker.
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  notes
• 1: Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Roman historian, rhetoric and writer. He was born in Turkey in 60 BC and died in Rome in 7 BC. Writer(in Greek) of 'Roman Antiquities'
• 2: Ancus Martius ruled 24 years from 640 till 616 BC
• 3: Read the article 'Overseas Trade'
• 4: In 37 AD Caligula transported an obelisk from Alexandria to Rome, via Ostia and the Tiber. It was to be erected on the spina of the Vatican Circus. The ship used for this was subsequently sunk between the piers of Portus, Claudius' new harbour, and used as the foundation for the lighthouse.