During the 2006-2008 campaigns part of the south stretch of the curtain wall were brought to light, from the point in which the walls were interrupted – in correspondence with an ancient gate – as far as the south-western end, where the wall began to curve to the north. In 2009, prior to excavating the curved part of the wall, a trench was opened immediately up hill (north), in order to check its line and state of preservation. This was also useful for the realisation of a hypothetical digital reconstruction to be used as an educational tool in the new museum of Artiminio and on the information panels in the Archaeological Park being created in collaboration with the Superintendency.

At the point in which the walls stop in correspondence with the above mentioned entrance, which underwent a series of monumental alterations involving the entire southern zone, the situation appeared somewhat chaotic and the stratigraphy considerably disturbed. Below layers of fill and collapse removed during previous years, what was probably the ancient access ramp to the walled area is coming to light.

Close to the entrance an inner ramp was also exposed, rising towards the terraces, from west to east. The Hellenistic room “ι”, destroyed by a violent fire, opened onto the ramp. The finds from this room included 4 dolia, jars, cups of fine grey and black glaze ware pottery and a miniature kyathos. The excavation inside the room also continued in 2009, revealing a carbonised wooden table on which one of the jars stood, parts of other wooden elements and of a lathwork wall which collapsed together with the roof during the fire.

The complex monumental reconstruction of the southern area also foresaw the creation of terracing (room “θ”) originally faced with large blocks – at least in it its latest phase – attested by a massive dump of sandstone chippings (mainly without finds, with the exception of tile fragments in the upper part) and diverse blocks found in their collapsed position. Most of the squared elements must have been removed by robbing which continued into the middle of the last century. The investigation of an earlier terracing construction phase (preliminary dating between the second half of the 4th-3rd century B.C.) begun in 2008 and continued in 2009, but only in the eastern half reached the earliest structures, probably Archaic, obliterated by the new construction.

At the centre of the area within the walls, occupied by complex “δ”, the excavation continued with the aim of completing the definition of the perimeter of the building in the south and west part. In the western half of the area other walls emerged, on a slightly different alignment from those to the east. Unfortunately, the entire area had been levelled by dumps of stones and earth taken from other points in the settlement (now almost completely removed) and subsequent interventions, even in the modern era. These have substantially altered the original situation and inevitably complicated the interpretation of the complex, slowing down the investigation of the ancient structures.