This excavation documented the continuity of the stratigraphy between sector I and sector V, confirming that the site was occupied in the late antique and early medieval periods.

In Sector I, two clayey layers were identified, containing pottery dating to the late antique period. These layers were cut by three circular postholes, an “a cassone” burial, its walls and cover made of large, squared limestone blocks and the foundation trench for the wall on which the facade of the medieval church was built (identified in a previous campaign). At a right angle to this wall, and partially covered by the church’s southern perimeter, there was a structure constituted by medium to large stones. This was the inner edge of a tomb, which based on stratigraphic and typological analogies with the stone-lined burials found in 2010, dated to the 12th-13th century.

The terminus ante quem for the levels investigated in Sector V is the 12th century, as they pre-dated the tombs mentioned above. A sequence of layers, with a clay or sandy-silt matrix were excavated which contained occupation evidence dating to the 6th-7th century. A large quantity of pottery and smaller number of glass finds and faunal remains were recovered. A circular posthole, the only burial found (single inhumation in an earth grave, in primary deposition) and the wall mentioned above, interpretable as a foundation built up against the terrain by removing part of the late antique stratigraphy, all dated to an immediately successive period. The foundation obliterated a mortar surface showing impressions left by ashlar blocks, attesting the robbing of the classical structures, and a makeup constituted by abundant large lumps of mortar in a makeup of medium to small stones and numerous stone chippings, probably used to level the uneven terrain.

The excavation aimed to define the chronology and function of the pre-existing wall on which the façade of the medieval church was built. This was used as the northern perimeter of the Romanesque open-air cemetery (12th-13th century). The new excavation dated its construction to within a wide chronological span between the 7th and 12th century. The absence of layers datable to the period between the 8th and 11th century, presumably due to the levelling of the site during the Norman re-foundation, made it impossible to better define the chronology.