This second excavation season at the Roman villa in Via San Rocco at San Salvo was run as a field school. In trench III, the excavations uncovered evidence of the occupation phases coherent with the use and abandonment of the cella vinaria and, perhaps, of the entire villa, between the 6th and early 7th centuries A.D.

During the first field school in 2012, trenches I and III were cleaned in order to return the excavations to the point they were at the end of the 2007 campaign. Trench III was also extended to the east.

Trench III
Work continued on emptying the dolia identified in 2012 and extending the trench towards the east and south. The material from the dolia related to the phase of robbing or destruction and abandonment of the cella vinaria and , perhaps, of the entire villa (end of the 6th-mid 7th century A.D.). Early medieval elements such as soapstone were also present.

East extension of trench III
The aim was to check for the presence of other dolia, and therefore the continuation in this direction of the cella vinaria. Two were actually uncovered.

South extension of trench III
The excavation was extended between the south edge of trench II and the south wall of a vat relating to the final phases of use of the cella vinaria. Here, evidence was uncovered regarding the life of the cella vinaria itself and the construction of a second vat. In fact, the cut for the foundation trench of the cella’s south wall was identified.
It was established that the later vat was built post 1st-2nd century A.D. and this caused the destruction of at least two dolia.