The Sangro Valley Project completed its second and final year of excavations in San Giovanni di Tornareccio during the 2013 season. Work focused on three areas of the villa complex: the drain in SG 2000 was reopened to explore its relationship with Structure C and its associated run-off zone to the south; SG 3000 was expanded to determine the extent, function and phasing of Structure D; and exploratory trenches SG 5000 and SG 6000 were placed in the environs of the villa complex. The 2013 discovery of a lime kiln is proof that the villa complex was recycled, explaining why only the lower foundations of the walls of the complex remain and the overall lack of material evidence at the site.

Structures A-D comprise a villa/bath complex adjacent to a reliable and abundant source of water for use in its bath and agricultural production activities. The room with the cocciopesto basin and drain (Structure C) is not part of the bath complex, but likely shared its water source and was used for work activities associated with Structure D, in a manner similar to the cocciopesto basin found in ACQ 10000, a rural Roman farm site, described in the 2009 season report. Based on ceramic and C-14 evidence, the villa complex was likely constructed in the late Republican or early Imperial period, enjoying a significant prosperity throughout the 1st century C.E. that ended in the second century C.E. with a thorough dismantling and recycling. Later phases of Structure D are less securely dated due to the lack of ceramic evidence and badly damaged stratigraphy. Current thinking is that Structure D was significantly modified during the recycling activities and experienced a second peak of activity that continued into the 3rd – 4th centuries C.E.