This was the 3rd campaign on the Roman site of Tassignano di Capannori (LU), Tax C/82. The aim was to check the extension of the site to the south of the area investigated in 2014-2015.
The results were immediate. In fact, parts of walls and floors made of tile tesserae lay immediately below the plough soil. The remains belonged a building partially excavated in 2014 and identifiable with the patches of paving found in trenches dug by the ‘Gruppo Archeologico Capannorese’ in 2002 (see 2014 entry).

The very superficial position of the floors (about 30 cm below present ground level) explains the damage they have suffered from modern and contemporary agricultural activity.
The structures were cleaned and episodes of robbing were identified. In fact, the cleaning and documentation occupied the entire season and no excavation took place.

The exposed area was occupied by three patches of paving (US 41, 44, 47) made of tile cubes, on a solid make up of opus signinum (US 42, 45, 48), which in turn overlay a foundation of small cobblestones bonded with mortar (UD 43, 46, 49). The distribution of the flooring outlined the perimeter of a room (room C), in axis with the two others (room A and B) that were uncovered previously. All that remained of the walls was a small section (US 50) in the south-east corner of the room, in addition to a number of stone blocks which, as some were very large, can be presumed to be still in situ. The robber trenches were identified and delimited but not excavated.

Robber trenches US -54 and -58 were of interest. They were used to dismantle the walls on the south and east sides of room C. The fill in robber trench 54, US 51, formed a semi-circular area projecting from the straight line of the lost south wall, assuming a shape that may not be casual. The same can be said of the shape of US -58, which in dismantling the east wall of room C, extended to meet robber trench -52, also forming a semi-circular outline.