Archaeological excavations during 2008 season were focused in the north-eastern part of the Roman colonial centuriation of Butrint on the Vrina Plain. A Roman bath building which seems to have been part of a larger complex identified in 2003 was excavated. The research comprised the south western corner and an apsidal plunge bath of the bath building. The walls were of mortared tiles and stones construction bonded with pink mortar. The tiles, typical products of the area, were readily recognised by distinctive finger-swipe impression, in a relatively soft fired pink red fabric. A tile sub-floor (context 12) supported a series of pilae stacks with round tiles bonded with greenish clay, a technique used elsewhere in Butrint. A praefurnium was present in the eastern wall. Traces of grey veined marbles both veneer and opus sectile, suggested a good level of decoration.
Few alterations seem to have been undertaken during the life of the bath-house, or at least few for which evidence survives, but the drain for the bathhouse (context 137) was replaced by a new drainpipe in ceramic tubuli (context 65).
A further building was represented to the south by a single line of mortared masonry wall (context 67) seen only in the section, whose function and relationship with the bathhouse remains yet unclear.
The material data from this year together with the evidences revealed in 2003, suggest that the bathhouse is a construction of the second century AD.
Levels of rubble (context 5) and chunks of a fallen wall (context 13) seem to denote the collapse of the bathhouse in the fifth century or later.