In 2010 two excavation campaigns were undertaken between June and September. The villa, situated at a short distance from the archaeological site of _Saepinum_, is known to have been the residence of an illustrious senatorial family, the Neratii who were of great importance for the empire and _Samnium_. What remains of the villa is a long substructure in _opus reticulatum_, some parts of which preserved for a length of about 2 m. The well-built structure was part of a cryptoporticus which functioned as a basis villae. Four trenches were opened. In sector C, over 50 stratigraphic units were identified; the stratigraphy seemed to be ‘upside down’ as the classical material was in the upper layers and the post-classical material in the lower ones, with the exclusion of the last layers. The US 49 was of particular interest, it was overlaid by a section of collapsed wall, USM 48, constituted by rectangular stone blocks, _tegulae_ and _cubilia_ forming a small arch from a cuniculus of the type present in _praefurnia_. Most of the pottery found below USM 48 dated to the 1st century B.C. and none was later than the mid 1st century A.D. This confirmed the hypothesis that the villa was preceded by a structure, perhaps smaller, over which a large villa over 200 m wide was then built just before the mid 1st century A.D.

In 2018, excavations at the site of the “villa dei Neratii” were reopened. The archaeological area situated in the locality of Crocella is large and was previously excavated between 2004 and 2010. This season the excavations continued on from where they were interrupted in 2010, in the sector denominated C. The aim was to gain a better understanding of the room that is considered to be part of a bath complex delimited to the north by an _opus_ _reticulatun_ wall decorated with terracotta semi-columns.

During this season excavations took place in two areas. In the first, sector A in Trench II, the excavation continued of Quadrants 1 and 2. Here, it was confirmed that Sector A did not belong to a closed room considered part of a bath building, but was rather an open area; therefore, the _opus_ _reticulatum_ wall decorated with terracotta pilasters constitutes the building’s façade facing south towards the Tammaro plain. At the same time, excavations began in Quadrant 2, Sector B of Trench I (Fig. 1).

In 2020, no field work was undertaken due to the pandemic. The general site plan was revised. In 2021, although it still was not possible to excavate, the area was cleared of vegetation and surveyed to take measurements that will be of use when excavation resumes.