The 2012 campaign foresaw the recording of the villa’s walls and floors: in fact, the graphic and photographic documentation of the walls and floors is fundamental for mapping the original sectors and relative facings, distinguishing the restorations from the ancient walls. At the same time a new technical analysis of the building was deemed necessary, in particular the baths. In fact, the number of rooms and their arrangement within the balneum was unclear as the structures, often less well-preserved than the rest of the complex, especially the flooring, were difficult to read. Therefore, the investigations concentrated on identifying the functional route through the baths, the system of water supply and drainage, the position of the hot and cold pools, and the evidence for the heating system.

As well as the field work, the 2012 campaign continued the finds processing, looking not only at the material from the recent investigations, but also from the ’69-’72 excavations (158 boxes). In particular work concentrated on 50 boxes of painted wall plaster fragments from both the old and new excavations.

A comparison between the finds from the old non-stratigraphic excavations and those from the new better-documented sequences improved the dating of the large quantity of material from the old excavations and provided a typology with which to compare the newer material. A wider picture is being created of the domestic furnishings, as well as of the terracotta, pictorial and stone decorations found on the site. A synthesis looking at the economic, social, and historical questions relating to the villa of Collesecco is also being formulated.