The 2008 excavation campaign on the site in via Neroniana at Montegrotto Terme (PD) concentrated on three areas.

The trench “ex SAV”, near the Venice-Bologna railway line, revealed the remains of a Roman building, already excavated between 1989-1992. The foundations of the walls were of squared blocks of Euganean trachyte and formed a series of rooms, delimited to the east by the external wall of the complex, with buttresses at regular intervals. The eastern part of a long portico with alternating semicircular and rectangular niches was also visible. This separated the northern residential part of the building from the southern part, which was presumably a garden with enclosure. North of the portico was a large square room, to the west a narrow corridor, some rooms behind the portico and a room with a characteristic T shaped plan. The floor make-up in this room was similar to that in the square room. Further examinations were undertaken in order to evaluate the building technique used in the Roman building, the preceding stratigraphy and the relationship between the structures and the channelling identified to the east of the buildings, beyond the eastern perimeter of the complex.

Trench H, already opened in 2007, is situated near the north-western limit of the property. Here it was possible to gain an understanding of the impact made on the Roman building by the reuse of materials in the late antique period. The rooms in the Roman building were robbed of the pavements, but not of the walls, exploited as the perimeters of huts paved with the beaten surfaces recovered from below the Roman floors. Three kilns and a multi-phase hearth were linked to the late antique settlement. At the same time part of the area was reused as a necropolis.

The identification and emptying of the robber trenches relating to the walls, to be dated sometime after the decline of the late antique village with necropolis and before the creation of the medieval village, also provided more information about the plan of the Roman building. Beside the two rooms situated west of the large room with opus sectile floor, there were another two, with mosaics, and a corridor. Further west patches of a brick pavement came to light, together with a stone paving, whose characteristics and relationship with the rest of the Roman building will be the object of future excavations.

The third area excavated, trench G, investigated a rectangular building with a staircase divided into three rooms. The structures cut 9th century levels and were associated with floors datable to between the 10th-11th century. Inside the eastern most room was a large hearth built on a slab of Euganean trachyte. It had at least four phases of use. Outside the building a long pit of uncertain use was found in association with a number of post holes.
North of the main building the southern part of a second structure was also uncovered. This had trachyte foundations, a beaten floor surface and a small hearth. It was on the same alignment and had the same chronology (10th-11th century) as the first building.