The excavations of 2008 focused in the full discovery of the western side, and the southwestern extreme of the large Hellenistic portico of the ancient city of Apollonia. During the excavations, a badly preserved part of the foundation wall was revealed, along with a wall corner which blocked the western side of the portico. The layers above the foundation of the portico contained material of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, which seems to have arrived probably from deposits of the same time, artificially accumulated for leveling the southern area, just at the foot of hill 104. The layers found below the remains of the portico date to the Classical and Archaic periods. Traces of regular cuts were noted at the deepest levels, which are probably related with the removal of clay deposits.
Some small architectural fragments were revealed during this season, such as stone wall blocks, columns bases, capitals, and the entablature of the portico. The large scale of wall destruction, along with the upper layers of debris identified in sector 10, suggest a periodic use of the area as an extraction site, robbing the remaining materials of the portico. The discovery of numerous flutings fragments of the same size, suggest that the columns shafts were dismantled for use as single blocks. These materials were reused in the construction of the nearby Medieval monastery of Saint Mary, in the houses of the village of Pojan, and perhaps even in the Ottoman buildings of the city of Berat (located some tens kilometers way from Apollonia). The discovery of a limekiln and a Doric columns shaft, in the western limits of the portico, indicates the destiny of the decorative elements after the destruction of the monument.
At this phase of research it still remains ambiguous whether the numerous shaft fragments of unfluted Doric columns and fluted Ionian or probably Corinthian orders, identified during the excavations, belong to the large portico, or to another earlier apsidal structure, discovered in sector 12. Other architectonic elements discovered during the excavation included: several fragments of a sima with an anthemion, elements of a frieze containing floral motifs, probably part of monumental sima, and numerous base fragments of Attic types. The discovery of limestone columns shafts and a capital fragment with an echinus profile which dates probably around the year 500 BC, suggests the presence of a large Doric building close to the portico.