This season, the excavations undertaken by Bologna University’s Department of Archaeology at Suasa investigated building 6, facing onto the eastern side of the main basalt road (south of buildings 3 and 5), building 8 situated on the west side of the road (north of the forum), and the east necropolis (a short distance from the south necropolis).

Building 6 continued the sequence of halls opening onto the basalt road (buildings 3 and 5). To date a paved area leading into a rear hall, paved with mosaic (outside the trench edge) has been exposed. The size of the paved area (23 m), situated along the portico east of the basalt road, suggested the presence of an important public building, perhaps with civic functions. The best-preserved phase (3rd century A.D.) was heavily robbed and was built on top of an earlier structure.

Building 8 was part of a large complex that has only been partially investigated. This was a large structure, which at least in the exposed part, seemed be functional rather than residential. Dating to the mid imperial period it overlay an earlier construction. Later, a well and a tank were constructed here.

The east necropolis is situated on state-owned land east of the Pian Volpello road. Its remains were discovered when a trench was opened in order to check a linear trace seen in aerial photographs and geophysical survey results, which crosses the plateau from east to west, reaching the banks of the river Cesano. A gravel road 2.70 m wide lay below the plough soil (80-110 cm deep) about 5 m of which was exposed. Along its southern edge was a wall, which contained the road and functioned as a perimeter for a funerary enclosure (south area). In fact, a group of early to mid imperial (1st-2nd century A.D.) burials lay just south of the road. The group comprised nine cremations, mainly in amphora, and an a cassa infant burial.

There were no containing structures on the other side (north) of the gravel road, but it bordered a second area of earlier (2nd-1st century B.C.) cremation burials. Some tombs had stone cippi that were no longer in situ with one exception bearing the inscription VIBIA GAVIA and decorated with a false door on the back. Both this stele and another without inscription have a cist created in the thickness of the stone closed with a stone slab sealed with lead. Inside were some remains selected from the related cremation burials. A third stone grave marker, found in a collapse, was decorated with the relief of a female figure. Continuation of the investigation in the northern area of the necropolis revealed a sequence of levels raising the height of the road surface (about 60 cm thick), datable to between the Republican and mid imperial periods (2nd century B.C.-2nd century A.D.)