The excavations at the Roman villa in Vinţu de Jos is part of a larger project meant to study the hinterland of the Roman city of Apulum. Combining overview photographs with systematic field walking, geophysics and excavations, the main objective of the project developers is to bring light into the suburban area of Roman occupation in Dacia. The eight weeks of excavations uncovered a rectangular masonry building, measuring 14×20 m, with buttresses adjoining the walls at the interior, covered by a roof made of tegulae and imbrices. This was probably the main part of the villa or just a storage facility. 70 m NE from this structure, two sunken-floored buildings were excavated, producing an interesting combination of Dacian hand made pottery, next to Roman pottery and four Roman fibulae. These were obviously inhabited during the Roman occupation of the province, simultaneous with the nearby villa, probably by the native population, which got involved in the agricultural activities. The excavation method was that of single context planning with the final purpose of building a GIS and a functional database, for storing the information in order to use it for publication. The future objective of the project is the continuation of excavations on the same site for a better understanding of the nature of the sunken-floored buildings and their inhabitants, as well as the full uncovering of the Roman Villa.