In September 2014, Chieti University continued the investigation of the area behind the Romanesque complex of S. Pelino at Corfinio. Work concentrated on the area with the standing Roman kiln structures in order to clarify the relationships between the remains and the creation of the late antique funerary area. More sections of opus reticulatum walls were uncovered and it was seen that the via glareata functioned as a service road for the entire funerary area. Its relationship with the main road was also clarified.

The remaining large walls present in this area of the excavations were part of an enclosure wall with a threshold; the necropolis was situated within it. In a later phase, between the 8th and 9th century based on the stratigraphy and pottery finds to date, the walls were partially ‘reused’ for the construction of a large residential building. This building was then completely dismantled (not unusual given the similar examples of S. Giulia and Pavia) to make way for a Romanesque building site that made wide scale use of its materials. In fact, all that remained of the perimeter walls were the robber trenches, the north side cut off at the floor level of the Romanesque complex, and part of a longitudinal wall abutting the latter. The extension and completion of the excavations in the area identified in 2013 as belonging to the floor of the Romanesque construction site further clarified its internal dynamics. Firstly, it was seen that the systematic robbing of the walls of the early medieval building seemed to proceed in tandem with the construction of the Romanesque cathedral and therefore, was not the result of a sporadic or sudden episode of robbing. Furthermore, an area dedicated to stone working was identified beside the Romanesque oratory of S. Alessandro, not far from this traces of a winch for putting the facing blocks into place, were identified.

The investigation of the metalworking area, identified in 2013, also continued. Here, there was a forge for making iron equipment and repairing tools used on the cathedral construction site, a bell-casting pit (of which clear traces remained in the alterations caused to the stratigraphy by the high temperatures and in the abundant copper and bronze smelting refuse). There were also traces of an imprint probably made by the use of a horizontal lathe, and the clay form of the bell itself. The materials found inside this area are coherent with the stratigraphic sequence and therefore provide a relatively precise picture of the medieval building site in the 11th and 12th centuries, confirming what can only usually be reconstructed for the same period from the written sources.