Excavations continued in the area of the “Università” station demonstrating that the original layout of the block dated to at least the 12th century, with partial restorations and dividing elements dating from the Angevin and Aragonese periods. The evidence from this area, which can be related to the port of Mandracchio, finds confirmation in the medieval documents collected by Bartolomeo Capasso and is comparable to the plan he proposed for the 12th century. Amongst the rooms uncovered, datable to the 13th century, was a kitchen, in which an oven was well preserved, a porticoed structure open to the south towards the sea and a number of channels.

Overlying this layout was the unitary 14th century intervention which reorganised the spaces and joined together the various constructions. Brick paving covering an open space within the block dated to this period, overlying a series of lime and pumice beaten floor surfaces. The last of these, situated at the lowest point reached by the excavation so far, dated to the Angevin period.

Both the medieval and 16th century pottery contexts were of great interest. In particular, those datable to between the 11th and 12th century presented a high percentage of imported Islamic glazed ware, cannelures amphorae of Sicilian production, glazed ware and banded painted and glazed ware from the eastern Mediterranean (Byzantine production). The 16th century materials attested commercial exchanges with both central-northern Italy and Spain. In fact, there were frequent finds of polychrome majolica produced at Montelupo (Tuscany), Deruta (Umbria) and Castelli (Abruzzo), associated in some cases with lustre ware of Iberian provenance.