The first excavation campaign investigated the sector denominated “Area ad Est del Tempio C” which included rooms A and D abutting the temple and respectively situated outside and inside the southern curtain wall of the forum. Further, the surfaces of rooms B and C, partially excavated by Cesare Raho in 2004, were cleaned. In room A a staircase with two residual steps was found, whilst in room B a burial was excavated. This was of unsure date but no earlier than the 5th century A.D. Occupation levels were uncovered documenting the existence of hearths and probable craft-working activities, perhaps linked to metal working, given the presence of a small pit containing traces of waste material and green-coloured animal bones.

During the research campaign a preliminary analysis of Temple D and its architectural characteristics was begun. The exterior of the structure underwent a first cleaning and, subsequently, the stratigraphic sequence within a number of the temple’s foundation cells was examined. The foundations were still accessible as they had having undergone structural modifications until the modern period. Cleaning of the floor surface, constituted by the original fill of Roman date, revealed a lime-kiln dating to the later occupation phases of the site.

A team from CIRCE, Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, led by Prof. Francesco Guerra used GPS to make a topographical survey of the site, surveyed the monuments using a laser scanner and produced ortho-photographs from aerial photography. Prof. Luigi Sperti from the Centro Veneto di Ricerche sulle Civiltà Classiche e Orientali, dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia examined the architectural fragments from the area of Grumentum.