The 12th excavation season at Urvinum Hortense (2009), mainly concentrated on recording the finds and completing excavation documentation rather than digging.

As regards Trench A (eastern side of the town) the relationship between the structures facing onto the main road crossing the town was investigated and long stretches of the paved road surface were exposed. At the same time gaps in excavation records were filled and new recording was undertaken in areas where residual stratigraphic units were removed for the purpose and, above all, through the renewed stripping back of surfaces that for decades had not been cleared of weeds. This was carried out mainly with the aim of checking the reliability and precision of the plan made by Giovanni Bizzozzero following his excavation, undertaken around the great temple on the summit, between 1932 and 1938. However, the 2009 campaign also aimed to continue investigation of the cistern complex situated by the road in order to create a correct, although by necessity partial, plan.
In the case of trench B on the opposite side of the town, the 2009 season also mainly concentrated on survey to check recording and the making of new records to fill in gaps in the existing documentation. Excavation was limited to the tidying up of the north trench edge, rendering it regular in order to better appreciate the continuity of the floor surfaces and the perimeter walls of the domus’ atrium, by removing residual portions of collapse.