The investigations undertaken in 2007 as part of the ‘Progetto Egnazia: dallo scavo alla valorizzazione’ confirmed the settlement history of the productive sector south of the via Traiana. Here, research concentrated on a room south of the road and in the area south of the kilns excavated during the 2005-2006 campaigns.

A complex stratigraphic sequence was revealed in the first sector. The sequence runs from the mid Republican period, attested by the beaten earth floor and a system of drainage channels, through numerous rebuilds and changes in use, to the 6th-7th century A.D., when the structure collapsed and the area was definitively abandoned. In the area south of the kilns a clay-earth beaten floor was uncovered. Some parts of it had been repaired with mortar and it showed extensive traces of burning attributable to the earliest kiln activity in the first decades of the 6th century. Following the collapse of these structures, probably caused by a fire, new beaten earth-clay floors were laid over the collapses. These floors were finally obliterated between the end of the 6th century and beginning of the 7th century.

Investigation of the north nave, presbytery and apse areas of the Episcopal basilica further clarified the occupation history in this area of the town before the construction of the Early Christian basilica in the second half of the 4th century A.D. In fact, here a large structure with a craft working function, probably a fullonica was built on top of a massive dump which between the end of the 3rd-beginning of the 2nd century B.C. obliterated the Messapian necropolis. The building was delimited to the west by a branch off of the via Minucia/Traiana and to the east by a parallel side street. It was later reduced in size following the construction of the first basilica. Subsequent to the collapse of the structures, datable to the end of the 1st century B.C., there is a gap in the phases and settlement relating to the Imperial period, at least until the 4th century A.D. when the earliest cult building was constructed. The successive mid 5th century basilica had longer naves and was paved with polychrome mosaics.

The excavation campaign of 2007 began investigation of the area to the south-east of the civil basilica, with visible ancient walls which antiquarian tradition usually associates with thermae. Five rooms of the bath complex were identified, some of quadrangular plan, others of various layouts. The rooms on the eastern front were examined in detail, they belonged to the heated sector and can be identified as the caldarium and laconium. All structures presented a complex sequence of building interventions, sign of continuous and incisive alterations for the maintenance of the monument. The baths certainly went out of function at the end of the 4th century A.D. and were converted for use in craft-working activity until their final abandonment, which is datable to the end of the 6th century A.D.