Work continued on the excavation of the large terraced structure on the south-eastern side of the forum that interrupted the sequence of shops facing onto the piazza. The structure was at least 3 m higher than the piazza and the entrance has yet to be identified. To the rear (east), the terrace was on the same level as the road surface of the via ‘della Medusa’.

A series of walls were identified in the upper levels of the terrace; some of these, mostly robbed, formed rooms opening onto the via Medusa. The floors were made of terracotta cubilia and connected by small channels positioned at a lower level, and may have been part of craft-working structures in the rooms. Other walls were of post-antique date.

There was a thick layer of colluvial material, homogeneous in colour, composition, and consistency across the entire area of the substantial terracing. It contained a large quantity of fragmented architectural elements, votives, and pottery (some inscribed), that certainly come from a sacred context. The materials can be dated to the 3rd-2nd century B.C.; later, this layer (cut by recent rebuilding of the podium) was used as the fill of the large artificial terrace. In fact, this layer was not present in the levels in front of the podium on the forum side.

Further excavation at the front of the terracing revealed its antiquity: in fact, below the present surface (perhaps corresponding with the late Republican floor of the lateral portico of the piazza) there was another course (on a row of foundation blocks), in carefully built polygonal walling without the brick/tile wedges that characterised the restructured upper courses. Therefore, the structure’s original offset was lower that the portico level. Thus, it provides the original level of the forum floor of the Latin colony.

Tens of stone blocks, mostly cut into wedges, suitable in size and materials (soft sandstone, quarried at nearby Forme) for building, were found across the entire area. Most were shaped on one side and it is possible that they were part of a structure with a moulding (podium? base?).

A deep sondage, although limited in size, by the adjacent Taberna 3, did not uncover any evidence proving the existence of a preceding construction phase. If this is confirmed by the continuation of the excavations it would mean that until the building of the tabernae, the polygonal terracing stood alone on this side of the forum.
Lastly, a large stone-built sewer was found below via della Medusa; it will provide further evidence for the dating of the road and associated infrastructures.