The 2002 excavations were carried out on two locations in two campaigns. In square R18/19 on the Southern Terrace the Iron Age layers were excavated to the bedrock. The excavation of the fourth room of the Stoa was also finished so that the conservation work started in 2001 could continue. Parts of a later building from the Hellenistic period were discovered, in which parts of several marble sculptures were discovered, besides pottery. North of the fourth room of the Stoa, there were several rooms belonging to a late Hellenistic building (2nd -1st cent. BC). During the second campaign, the adjoining Building B was discovered at the northeast corner of the Stoa. An interesting discovery was a hoard of bronze coins of Phillip II and Alexander III found on the badly preserved mortar floor. On the Eastern Terrace work was carried out on a larger area, where parts from three houses were discovered (The House with a Sanctuary, The House with an Atrium and The House of the Collector), along with parts of the streets that separate them and a drain along one of the streets. In the first house, the most interesting room was the one with a bench pedestal made of terracotta roof tiles, where the domestic altar was. An abundance of finds belonging to the two latest building phases was discovered in the House with an Atrium, most of which was unearthed during the 1999 season. Also, in this season the uncovering of the inner courtyard with pithoi and parts of Room 1 of the House of the Collector started. The coins and the rest of the artifacts date the houses to 2nd cent. BC-1st cent. AD.

In 2003 two excavation campaigns were carried out: first in May-June and then in October-November. During both seasons, the so called House of the Collector on the Eastern Terrace was excavated. The house is divided into two parts: a two-storey residential part on the west and a household part on the east, surrounded by porches along the eastern and southern side. The western part consists of three rooms, and the east¬ern represents a central open courtyard, where five large pithoi, stone platforms for hand wheat mills and a fireplace were discovered. Most interesting was Room 2, where an abundance of various finds, mostly pottery, a few bronze vessels, 16 terracotta figurines, marble sculpture of Aphrodite, Paionian cult bronzes, jewelry, objects made of bone, bronze and iron (tools and various other utensils), were discovered. There were 56 coins discovered in the whole house. The coins and rest of the artifacts date the house to the 2nd and early 1st cent. BC. The house was named The House of the Collector because the owner collected and preserved objects that are much older than the house itself: Paionian bronzes from the 7th and 6th cent. BC, glass beads from the late 6th and 5th cent. BC, a sculpture of Aphrodite, a strainer and a simpulum dated to the second half of the 4th cent. BC. At the same time, a part of the team excavated rooms 2, 3 and 5 of the so-called House with a Sanctuary, where several building phases were documented. A small pottery kiln belonging to the later building phase was discovered.

In 2004, the excavations concentrated on the Eastern Terrace of the site, were carried out during May and June. There were two main goals. The first was completing the excavation of the eastern and southern porch of the House of the Collector (see season 2003). In the eastern porch three circular pits were discovered. They served as small fireplaces, where embers for the kitchen and heating of the house were prepared. Two walls that close the porch on the southern side are part of a later re-building of the house after it suffered in a heavy fire in the last decade of the 2nd or early 1st century BC. Considering that this part is practically outside of the house, there was a very small quantity of broken pottery and few bronze coins confirming the dating of the house in the 2nd-1st centuries BC. The second goal was confirming the Iron Age stratigraphy at Vardarski Rid, established during the previous excavations on the Southern and Northern Terraces. The convenient area for this purpose was at the northeastern edge of the site, where construction work for the new highway towards the Macedonian-Greek border (see season 1999) created a cross-section right under the new bridge. Five, clearly distinctive Iron Age deposits were visible in the cross-section. These Iron Age layers were covered and completely sealed with a thick layer (at some places up to 1 m) of gravel, small stones and sand, which is a result of the heavy floods that struck the region somewhere towards the end of the 6th or the first decades of the 5th century BC. This layer was discovered in other parts of the site, confirming Mitrevski’s theory that this natural disaster was the cause of decline of the Paionian settlement on Vardarski Rid. In a small area under the bridge, parts of the dwellings and artifacts (mostly pottery) dating from the Early Iron Age (9th century BC), until the end of the Late Iron Age (end of the 6th century BC) were discovered.