The 2008 excavations looked at the area delimited by the opus caementicium foundation walls of a temple building, uncovered during the 2005-2007 campaigns. The two interior rooms of the building were explored: the “cella”, 7.40 × 6.75 m and the “pronaos”, 4.84 × 7.40 m. The excavation in these areas was deepened in order to get a correct date for the cult building.

Following the preliminary surface cleaning of the area, inside the “cella” a homogeneous stratigraphy was identified, characterised by a thin layer of friable reddish soil. This was the upper interface of the late Republican construction layer, unfortunately no traces of the floors survived in the rooms. In the south-eastern corner of the “cella” there was a small badly built dry-stone wall of ashlar blocks of various sizes. This feature had been partially visible in 2007. The function of the various walls identified below the temple floor is still not clear, but the stratigraphical evidence suggests that they may belong to the building underneath the temple whose presence was noted in previous excavation campaigns. The phases relating to the construction site for the temple must have removed and levelled the underlying structures in order to prepare the surface for the floors.

The stratigraphy and finds study (still in the preliminary stages) confirm a latest date for the building of around the first years of the 1st century A.D.
At the centre of the building’s main room a circular cut 84 cm deep was uncovered. This must have been related to the foundation ritual for the temple. The fill was characterised by a reddish colour and clear traces of burning and it contained a substantial amount of pottery as well as other artefacts and bone fragments.

The most likely hypothesis is that this was a sacrificial deposit that was part of a religious ceremony. Inside the votive deposit there were circa forty unguentaria as well as numerous other miniature vases. As well as pottery balsamarii a well preserved iron axe was found at the base of the deposit. Various bronze artefacts were also present including coins and rings. The materials and stratigraphy dated the deposit to the first decades of the 1st century A.D. Furthermore, typological parallels suggest that the temple was dedicated to a female divinity.

The excavation and removal of the materials took up most of the 2008 campaign.