The investigation concentrated on the northern part of the Roman building now under permanent cover. Three robber trenches relating to walls in rooms 1, 3, 4, and 5 were emptied, as this had not been done during the previous campaigns. Although it is thought that robbing involved all the surviving structures of the villa at more or less the same moment, a different US number was given to each trench based on its alignment. This was done in order to recover the topographic data for the occupation evidence, in particular the floors and wall facings, and thus obtain the necessary elements for a reconstruction of the villa’s interiors.

The most significant find came from the emptying of the eastern trench inside room 1, a trachyte plinth for a column, made up of a quadrangular base 0.80 × 0.80 m. The base and lower end of the shaft were 0.36 m in diameter. This find confirmed the previous suggestion that the trenches inside room 1 represent the robbing of the foundations of a row of columns parallel to the north/south walls. The integral plinth was repositioned in correspondence with the eastern row of columns, from which it came.

Brick/tile plinths were found on the bottom of the north-south trenches, functioning as deep foundation structures supporting a linear foundation wall, presumably in brick/tile and for this reason completely robbed out. The system of plinths in the trachyte foundations uncovered to the west was a symmetrical repetition of what was documented to the east and confirmed the hypothesis that the linear trachyte foundations associated with brick/tile plinths represents a reinforcement of the foundations to support the substantial walls of room 1.