In 2019, Messina University carried out excavations on a residential building at S. Giada di Laino Borgo. The structure was arranged around a rectangular (5.40 × 2.70 m) courtyard, on an east.-west alignment. The eastern half was paved with a layer of white lime, while the western sector presented several horizontal tiles and the deposition on top of this surface of a lekanis with a lid and a burnt lamp in the south-eastern corner, perhaps a votive offering. This open-air courtyard seemed to be entered from the exterior on the south-eastern side, via two steps built of lime mortar and tiles. The steps (G) had been cut in antiquity by an oval pit, filled by a sterile layer; a short distance away there was a post-hole.

A large rectangular room (A) on an east-west alignment was situated south of the courtyard. The substantial north and east walls of the room were made of Pollino travertine blocks. Visible on the west side were a partition wall and a channel, on a north-south alignment, which drained water from the courtyard above. Next to room A, to the west, a part of room B was uncovered, delimited by the north wall, a small wall to the east and to the south the impression of a mud-brick wall was just visible, but its actual size and function are unknown.

Room C was situated west of the courtyard and its plan was only partially defined. Inside there was a large pithos sunken into the ground. From room C it was possible to enter room D, the most significant although only a very small strip was excavated. This room was damaged by the robbing of the central sector, but where there were no overlying structures the removal of the roof tile collapse revealed a complex stratigraphy. The beaten floor surface was covered by a layer of blackish soil, below the floor there was a layer made up of gravel and lenses of charcoally soil and burnt materials, a loose foundation containing Hellenistic pottery and residual Enotrian banded ware. To the east of the courtyard, there was a small portion of another room, E.

This residential complex was occupied during the 4th century B.C. and suddenly abandoned, perhaps following an earthquake, in the mid 3rd century B.C. In room D, there was a cult space of the Lucanian period. The typology of the offerings (fibulae and objects of personal ornament) and of the votives (heads and Tanagrine figurines, small statuettes), suggest it can be attributed to a female cult associated with water, given the vicinity of the river Lao, and therefore to the tradition of Oscan divinities (_Mefitis?_).

The sudden abandonment was also confirmed by the data from trench 1000, where the north and east walls of a room and related levels of collapse were excavated.