The 2005 excavations continued with the project begun in 2003, a collaboration involving the Archaeological Superintendency of the Marche, the University of Macerata, and the administrations of the town of Sant’Angelo In Vado and the province of Peasaro and Urbino.

The main aim was to empty the well in the bath building, a dry-stone construction of cobblestones and stone chippings placed head-on and side-on, the inner diameter being 180 cm at the head. A substantial quantity of dumped earth was removed and, for safety reasons and so as not to compromise the structure’s stability, excavation stopped at 2.50 m below the level of the hypocaust floor.

Work continued in trenches A, B and C along the cardo west of the baths. In trench A, the excavation reached a depth of 130 cm below ground level, stopping in correspondence with a compact, uniform layer of earth, mainly formed by yellowish-grey river sand. The pottery from the deep layers in the trench dated to between the 2nd and 1st century B.C.

In trench B, a depth of 111 cm was reached where a layer of river gravel mixed with medium to small flat and round cobblestones was intercepted.

Trench C, was enlarged and went down to a depth of 74 cm. A channel was exposed, coming from the bath building and cutting the road east to west in the direction of the road drain. The stratigraphy and archaeological finds dated the channel to the mid to late imperial period and therefore post-dating the construction of the road.

During the excavations, both ancient and modern archaeological material was found (flints, black gloss, Italian sigillata, thin-walled ware, glazed and majolica pottery). The investigation was run as a training excavation for the archaeology students of Macerata University.