In 2005 the excavation campaign continued in the northern areas of Aquileia. The area, especially in the late antique period, as is known, formed a residential area characterized by several domus of superior quality, situated to the south of the area at present being excavated, including the so-called domus of Licurgus and Ambrosia. At the same time, its proximity to the commercial zones connected to the river port, lead to the supposition that this may have been a commercial area, at least in part. The last summer excavation campaign lead to the total removal of the layer of dump (US 05), constituted by fragmented pottery and stone datable to between the 5th and 7th century A.D., and the consequent recovery of the final residential phase of the area, in particular in the southern part of the excavation. However, excavation only revealed a series of completely decayed structures that related to the abandonment of the area in the late antique period (5th-6th century A.D.). In fact, several badly made walls were found, made from re-used material together with a beaten-earth pavement with small areas of white lime, which constituted the ancient floor level of the rooms west of the cardine, with the exception of a very small fragment of not very cohesive tessellated pavement, fond along the excavation’s southern limit. The only structure still in situ was a small brick channel, insulated with numerous amphora stoppers, according to a fairly well known procedure. Its course was followed below the basoli of the partially conserved road which crosses the excavation on a N-S alignment. (Federica Fontana)