Excavations restarted in May 2006, in the locality of Monte Grande, with the investigation of the sanctuary’s votive deposits previously found in the area to its north, characterised by the presence of walled structures on various alignments.

These were a series of rectangular tanks, delimited by walls built of limestone blocks. The structures were mostly preserved at foundation level or to the height of a low socle and were lined with waterproof mortar. The tanks were used to channel water towards a point at which artificial levelling of the terrain favoured its convergence. In three of the tanks there were several layers of mortar, the earliest seeming to be in phase both with a containing structure of limestone blocks identified to the west and with a room which had a stone cooking surface.

The on-going study of the large amount of votive materials recovered has provided a first chronological attribution for the sanctuary which places it between the end of the 6th and the second half of the 4th century B.C.. However, the site was already in use from the 13th-12th century B.C., a period which was followed by at least four settlement phases, the final one dating to last century.

The investigation in the area of the votive dumps brought to light two circular wells containing fragments of large impasto jars with cordon decoration, carenated cups, spindle whorls and reels dating to between the 9th and 7th century B.C. These structures probably relate to the cult area and can thus be linked to a water cult which, as it was already attested in the 8th century B.C., demonstrates the long continuity of the sanctuary’s use.