Excavations continued in Area VII, occupied by the Roman rectangular building/tower straddling the curtain wall, in the area of the eastern entrance to the fortified settlement, which developed on the southern plateau immediately below the medieval tower. As investigations inside the room were complete, the excavations concentrated on the extensions to the west of the structure’s west wall (USM 3009) and north of wall USM 3023, cut for the construction of the room spanning the curtain wall. Continuous occupation from the Bronze Age onwards and the restructuring of the village in the Augustan period, confirmed by an Augustan coin, was documented in the western extension. To the north of wall USM 3023, the excavation continued of new walls running perpendicular to the latter, which seemed to relate to residential rooms predating the Augustan restructuring. In spring 2012 work for the recovery and enhancement of this area, with the construction of a roof and consolidation of the structures, will begin.

In Area II (Roman quadrangular tower, abutting the south-eastern corner of the curtain wall) work was limited to a survey and overview of the state of the investigation and the cleaning up of the entire area. The site of Colle Mazéit was part of the “Percorso delle Pievi e del Siti Archeologici” Project, an itinerary of proposed visits to ancient parish churches and nearby archaeological areas which took place between June and September 2011, organised by seven municipalities in the Carnia region. This area saw several occupation phases, between the 2nd-1st century B.C. and the 4th century A.D. The stone curtain wall between Area II and Area VII was also cleaned.

Area VI was reopened. This was situated along the south-western edge of the stone curtain wall at the point reached by the old road which from the foot of the Colle Mazèit went to the medieval tower. The entire area was cleared of trees in order to make it visitable. A row of postholes and cuts in the bedrock relating to probable proto-historic dwellings were excavated. These features had been identified in 2004 and 2005 in the eastern part of the area, where the earliest archaeological remains had been found. As is known, this area presents complex and very interesting occupation evidence, datable to the late Neolithic period (3600-3400 B.C.), the recent/final Bronze Age (14th-10th century B.C.), the full Iron Age (4th-5th century B.C.), the Celtic and late Republican period and the early and mid-imperial period. The exposure of a stone-paved room, relating to the Roman phase IV, the general restructuring of the village, was completed.