<p>Area just within the Servian Wall (s.v. *Muri: Quirinalis) near the *Porta Collina, where unchaste Vestal Virgins were buried alive in a chamber dedicated to this gruesome task (Dion. Hal., <i>Ant</i>. <i>Rom</i>. 2.67.3-4; Festus 448: <i>Sceleratus campus</i>; Servius, <i>ad Aen</i>. 11.206; Coarelli; Richardson). Livy places the site ‘near the Porta Collina, to the right of the street’, <i>ad portam Collinam dextra viam stratam</i> (8.15.7-8), while Plutarch (<i>Num</i>. 10.6-7) relates that the chamber was excavated from the *Agger. Thus the Campus Sceleratus was probably located just S of the Porta Collina, quite close to the Servian Wall; since only one chamber is attested in the literary sources, there is no indication that the region was of notable size. Palmer (659) postulates that the shrine of *Bellona Pulvinensis stood within the Campus Sceleratus, yet his placement is almost certainly over-restrictive (for a fuller discussion, s.v. Bellona Pulvinensis, Aedes).</p>