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Line 116: A second excavation campaign until 1782 was assisted by the architect [[Pietro la Vega\|Franceso La Vega]] after Weber's death. He diligently collected all the preceding material to reconstruct the history of the excavations. He introduced new concepts for the first time about context, emphasising direct observation of ancient buildings in their landscape or in their historical and archaeological complex. In seven years at Stabiae La Vega resumed excavations in some villas built on the plateau of Varanium<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Opening Archaeological Museum of Castellammare di Stabia Libero D’Orsi \|url=http://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/opening-archaeological-museum-of-castellammare-di-stabia-libero-dorsi/ \|access-date=2023-03-20 \|website=Pompeii Sites \|language=en-US}}</ref> already partially excavated, the Villa del Pastore, Villa Arianna and [http://pompeiisites.org/en/stabiae-en-2/second-complex/ Second Complex] and extended research to a large number of villae rusticae in the ''ager stabianus'' and made precise reports. However he could not persuade the court to keep excavated buildings exposed and avoid their backfilling, so excavation of Stabiae continued with the usual technique of digging and backfilling.<ref>Gardelli, Paolo. [https://actual-art.spbu.ru/en/publications/archive/vol-8/museum-collection-space-work-of-art/10691.html Stabiae and the Beginning of European Archaeology: From Looting to Science.] ''Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art'': Collection of articles. Vol. 8. Ed. S. V. Mal’tseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova, A. V. Zakharova. St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2018, pp. 686</ref> The location of Stabiae was again widely forgotten. In 1950<ref name="restoring"/> when [[Libero D'Orsi]],<ref>{{Citation \|title=Libero D'Orsi \|date=2023-01-18 \|url=https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Libero_D%27Orsi&oldid=131582798 \|work=Wikipedia \|access-date=2023-03-20 \|language=it}}</ref>, an enthusiastic amateur, brought to light some rooms of Villa San Marco<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2018-05-31 \|title=Villa San Marco \|url=http://pompeiisites.org/en/stabiae-en-2/villa-san-marco/ \|access-date=2023-03-20 \|website=Pompeii Sites \|language=en-US}}</ref> and Villa Arianna<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2018-05-31 \|title=Villa Arianna \|url=http://pompeiisites.org/en/stabiae-en-2/villa-arianna/ \|access-date=2023-03-20 \|website=Pompeii Sites \|language=en-US}}</ref> with the help of the maps from the Bourbon excavations, and also Villa Petraro, a ''[[domus]]'' found by chance in 1957 (in the commune of Santa Maria la Carità) but then reburied after a few years of study.<ref>Libero D'Orsi, Antonio Carosella; Vincenzo Cuccurullo, The excavations of Stabiae: excavation newspaper, Rome, Quasar, 1996, {{ISBN\|88-7140-104-2}}</ref> He also found parts of a residential area of the city about 300 m from Villa San Marco including remains of houses, shops, parts of the macellum<ref>Arnold De Vos; Mariette De Vos, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabia, Rome, Editori Laterza, 1982. p. 323</ref> to which roads from the port converged.<ref>Giuseppe Di Massa, the territory of Gragnano in antiquity and the ager stabianus, pp. 1–48. http://www.centroculturalegragnano.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Il-Territorio-di-Gragnano-nell%E2%80%99antichit%C3%A0-e-l%E2%80%99Ager-Stabianus.pdf</ref> These remains were again reburied. News of the finds quickly attracted important visitors and nobility from all over Europe. Some of the most important frescoes were detached to allow better conservation and almost 9000 finds collected were housed locally. His work finally stopped in 1962 following lack of funds.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.pompeiisites.org/Sezione.jsp?titolo=Storia+degli+scavi&idSezione=259 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022034654/http://www.pompeiisites.org/Sezione.jsp?titolo=Storia+degli+scavi&idSezione=259 \|archive-date=22 October 2013 \|title=Homepage - Pompeii Sites Portale Ufficiale Parco Archeologico di Pompei}}</ref> The site was declared an archaeological protected area in 1957.

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