The demolition of one of the buildings facing onto Piazza 1 Ottobre, in front of the Campanian amphitheatre, led to a complete investigation of the site that had been cleared. The remains came to light of the foundations of mid Republican houses which were then restructured in the early Imperial period. In the area closest to the piazza itself there were two semicircular marble lined pools, placed at right angles to each other and which were probably situated on the edge of an open area. This area had been heavily disturbed by robbing trenches dug for the removal of lead piping and other reusable materials. On the bottom of the largest pool, placed in the southern apse, was a copy of the _Satiro anapauomenos_ resting up against a tree, it was fragmented but completely reconstructable apart from the arm and parts of the right leg. Despite evidence of ancient restoration – iron and bronze pins – the entire statue, the face in particular, was exceptionally well preserved and free of abrasions, corrosion and lacunae. The use of the drill seemed to confirm the dating of the copy to the Hadrianic period, a period in which there was intense building activity at Capua, together with an outstanding artistic production.

Along the eastern side of the Piazza Anfiteatro (Di Bello property) the modest remains of a Samnite building in tufa blocks came to light facing onto a basalt road (or piazza) visible along the excavation’s western edge. The upper levels contained the remains of a _domus_ with rooms arranged around a garden, a colonnade on two sides (north and south) and a rectangular fish pool. A second basalt road or piazza also belonged to this phase. It was 50 cm higher than the previous one and only the edge of its sidewalk was visible in the section. The presence in the area of numerous fragments of marble, decorative slabs and statues together with the presence of burnt lenses and a thick layer of lime in the fish pool, suggests that there was a lime kiln in the vicinity to which the recovered fragments were destined.

During a competition for a project to remodernise the piazza trial trenches were dug in the northern part of Piazza 1 Ottobre. These revealed the foundations of a Republican amphitheatre, demolished to make room for the Imperial version which must have had a much larger space in front of it. The Republican construction obliterated, without completely destroying, several pre-Roman tombs datable to between the 6th-4th century B.C. which had been identified during earlier investigations. A lead fistula, resting directly on the cut structures and appearing to head towards a well, can be dated to the Imperial period. Each length of pipe bore the stamp M. AVREL. LVCRETIVS LYSIAS CVR. AQ. The structures found towards the east dated to the Lombard period (7th-8th century A.D.). These comprised a well and the foundations of small rooms situated on the edge of a beaten earth road which crossed the piazza in a north-east/south-west direction, a different alignment from that of the Roman structures. At the centre of the piazza a tile production installation dating to the 17th century was found, with a large well preserved kiln, settling tanks and a well. Lastly, along the southern side of the enclosure which marked the change in height between the road and the area open to the public, the remains were uncovered of what was probably a corridor on two levels ( _porticus_ or _ambulatio_), in part identified in the 1950s, built in _opus latericius_, continued in _opus vittatum_, with an opus signinum floor.

Various restoration projects, still not all completed, were financed with funds from the P.O.R. Campania 2000 – 2006. The main project involved six segments and the ambulatory of the south-eastern side of the Campanian Amphitheatre. Here, work continued on the integration of the brick curtain walls, the consolidation of the vaults and the refacing of the cavea in order to reduce the infiltration of rain water and render this part of the monument (up to the eastern entrance) useable.