This campaign, carried out by the University of Milan, concentrated on the investigation of a vast complex, building Alfa, excavated during previous seasons (2011-1014) and situated close to the curtain wall. The area excavated in 2014 was reopened and extended.
Building Alfa
This structure, the recording of which is now complete, was made up of three rooms A, B, and E (5.70 × 12 m) in axis, on a north-south alignment. The two rooms to the east and west of the building, C and D, were probably open spaces, perhaps partially covered by canopies, indicated by the presence of postholes. Room D seemed to have a productive function, attested by areas baked by heat and by waste materials. For both, the finds from the occupation layers suggest a date within the site’s Archaic phase (6th-early 5th B.C.).

This season’s excavations also revealed the existence of other t rooms, G and F, the latter still to be excavated. Although independent, they were centred on building Alfa, thus showing that it was not an isolated structure but part of a larger complex.

The stratigraphy and ceramic finds suggest that building Alfa, with relative layers of occupation, disuse, and abandonment, dated to within the 4th century B.C. and was preceded by a building on a different alignment, to which rooms C and D probably belonged. This earlier structure probably dated to the Archaic phase, between the mid 6th century and early decades of the 5th century B.C. In fact, the layers contained abundant pottery – monochrome, bi-chrome, impasto, Ionian cups, and residual mixed and Black Glaze wares. The tombs found to the south of the building (T. XI-XII-XIII) and tomb XXIV, also date to this period. They were found intact inside the later room G, according to the Peucetan practice of burying the dead in the immediate vicinity of houses.