This campaign was undertaken between September-November and investigated the prehistoric levels in Trenches II, IV, IX and X of the so-called ‘area Castello’. In all cases the trenches were adjacent to each other and the internal front of the Bronze Age fortifications and constituted the enlargement or deepening of trenches from previous seasons. In the same period a number of decaying timber protective structures were replaced in the area of the ‘Porta Monumentale’ of the Apenninic fortifications .

In SAS IX and the adjacent SAS II levels relating to the late and final Bronze Age were excavated, whose complexity had been documented in the previous campaigns. The data relating to the Final Bronze Age 2 were particularly interesting. The existence of a series of large buildings was confirmed, whose interiors were divided by regular rows of large posts and perimeters were marked by pathways paved with loose stones. The excavations in SAS II identified part of a building situated south/south-east of the ‘hut-temple’, on the other side of an open area and at the edge of the ramp that must have led to the door. Inside, a number of terracotta ovens/cooking stands and abundant impasto and plain ware pottery was found on a beaten clay floor.

Excavations in SAS IV slightly enlarged the 2006 trench. Of note the find of at least another two well-preserved terracotta ovens/cooking stands and of two large plain ware basins with proto-geometric decoration situated one beside the other, the bases embedded in the floor surface.

An area of circa 20 m2 was excavated in SAS X, at the centre of which a deep late medieval cut showed the deep stratigraphy. The investigations stopped at the Phase IV (Final Bronze 1) level. This phase presented a floor surface and post-holes relating to a hut already identified in 2006. Furthermore, an external area was documented, situated between the structure and the internal front of the fortifications, roughly paved with loose stones.

Maintenance was carried out on the area of the ‘Porta Monumentale’ in the Apenninic fortifications and some stratigraphic excavation was undertaken in order to revise and complete the graphic and photographic documentation. This involved the collapses blocking the gate, the post holes along the wall facings and a section of beaten floor surface delimited by orthostats. A number of fragments from a Mycenean kylix datable to the TEIIIA2 were found.