In spring 2002 investigations were undertaken at Carinola on the site of Forum Claudii, along the road leading from Ventaroli to the church of S. Maria in Foro Claudio.

In correspondence with several vaulted structures visible above ground level, interpreted by W. Johannowsky as rooms belonging to a bath complex, a stratigraphic sequence was identified with numerous sub-phases substantially ascribable to two phases.

The earliest phase, characterised by a stretch of drain also servicing the bath complex, dates to round about the late mid-Imperial period. The later phase, generically datable to the early medieval period, but certainly post 5th-6th century A.D., saw the robbing and abandonment of the Imperial settlement, with the construction of the present road over the razed Roman walls.

The layers covering the drain and surrounding area and also the fill produced numerous bronze coins which, following conservation, should provide useful dating information for the various occupation phases of the site.