During the first intervention, the excavated sectors were substantially enlarged with the aim of creating a single open excavation area and removing agricultural levels on the portion corresponding with the smallest of the three circular defensive elements. At the end of this intervention, the excavation areas were chosen, all within the site grid that was laid out in 2009. In particular, work was undertaken to complete unfinished areas from previous seasons. In former sector III, a structure with a sleeper beam was excavated, which confirmed the room was used for iron working, and in the central zone of the site (formerly sector I) a robber trench and the floor levels of the large central building were investigated.

In the central part of the site, the excavations revealed the entire quadrangular perimeter of the large tower-shaped building around which it appears that the settlement was built. The building’s quadrangular plan was attested by a wide robber trench, which had almost completely removed a probable masonry base and part of its four timber corner posts. Inside the structure, there were several overlying patches of floor surfaces, badly damaged by modern ploughing, in addition to several postholes and two partially sunken hearths.

Investigations continued in the area outside the tower, in particular the west and south zones where there were substantial layers relating to the reorganisation of the area when defensive walls were constructed. Although at present excavation in this area has stopped at the exposed contexts, in several parts of the investigated area stratigraphy negative evidence from earlier phases emerged, interpretable as hearths and holes for timber elements. In the area outside the tower, several large postholes forming the innermost circle of the defensive ditch, interpretable as the remains of a palisade, also appear datable to an earlier phase.

Intensive investigations were also undertaken on the part of the site between the defensive wall and the two outermost ditches, in particular in the eastern section already partially uncovered in the former sector III and the test trenches excavated in 2009. In this case, a mechanical digger was used to remove the ploughsoil and latest fills from the concentric defensive ditches, revealing their morphological characteristics and the stratigraphic sequence relating to their abandonment.