The investigation clarified a number of important points regarding the entire area of the Sanctuary of Vesta.

As regards the sanctuary’s borders, a further stretch of the wall which was constructed around the mid 8th century B.C. in order to define the area was recorded. The mud-brick wall was built to the south of the ditch which ran between the Palatine and the Velia, in turn regularised by a deep vertical cut. This stretch was recorded to the west of the domus Regia, the building constituted by a number of aligned rooms on its long side which was built in 750-725 B.C. (Phase 2.1 of the domus known as the domus Publica). This year’s excavation confirmed what had been suggested by preceding investigations, that is the modification to the plan of this building that was made during the second half of the 8th century B.C. (sub-phase 2) by the addition at the eastern end of a wing built at right angles to the central part of the building.

In the House of the Vestals further structural elements from the 6th and 2nd century phases were found, however, here it seems opportune to concentrate on the new data from the Temple of Vesta. Here, the reopening of a sector already partially investigated by G. Boni and R. T. Scott, on the south-western side of the preserved temple uncovered important new elements. As well as bringing to light the corner of a structure in tufa blocks, datable to before 550 B.C. and razed in the 5th century B.C., next to the temple stretches of two of the temple’s foundation trenches were documented. The earliest dated to the first half of the 4th century B.C., the later one to the last quarter of the 4th century B.C. Also belonging to this phase were two blocks of Grotta Oscura tufa attributable to the podium. As regards the post 64 A.D. history of the site, as well as the investigation of the imperial Atrium Vestae (wing W), we note the excavation of a number of rooms abutting the Neronian portico and built obliterating part of the Neronian via Sacra, whose function as part of a baths has been underlined and for which a preliminary 4th century A.D. date emerged.