The research was extended to the northern and eastern parts of the villa. While limited trenches were put into rooms already investigated in previous years (rooms G, H, N1/N2, O1/O2), the main interventions took place in the central part of the “U” shaped structure. The plan of a new sector was exposed, characterized by a series of rooms with beaten earth floors (rooms p, q, v, s, t, u) arranged around a small central courtyard (room r). Various building phases were identified in the stratigraphy, which led to the gradual encroachment of new rooms into the open area.
The discovery of vast collapses in adjacent rooms attests the further extension of the central part of the villa towards the east (room Q).

Inside room r, an embedded structure probably relating to a water supply system was excavated. It was made up of a sub-rectangular drain, with tile walls and floor, and two conduits with triangular sections, also made of tile fragments, opening in the east and west walls.

During the excavations, a number of students undertook the restoration of the two lacus (room E) that were part of the wine making structures. The intervention involved both the structures and the facings of the walls. The surface cleaning and removal of patches of the adjacent layers revealed evidence of restructuring as well as the presence of an earlier construction phase, predating the must tanks ( lacus ).