This season it was impossible to carry out the planned excavations as work was being undertaken on the site as part of the project to restore, conserve, and enhance the archaeological area of Roca Vecchia with a view to opening the site to the public. The presence of the conservators, workmen, and their equipment affected the safe access to the site for the students taking part in the campaign, whose mobility and work was limited. The students were therefore mainly involved in assisting in surveying and helping to clean the structures to be restored and the exposed layers that were to be covered and protected prior to the restoration of the floors of the late medieval buildings.

The project itself, although principally concentrating on the restoration of the walls and enhancement of the site, also foresees some limited excavation. This will take place in the coming months at the monumental gate of the middle Bronze Age fortifications, the so-called ‘Temple hut’ of the final Bronze Age, and a late medieval church building and associated burials in the eastern sector of the peninsula.