New trenches opened on Monte Palazzi between 22nd May and 7th July exposed the external curtain wall of the perimeter on the north-eastern side of the site. This was preserved to six courses and was built of medium sized quadrangular ashlar blocks (30-40 cm).
The lower course was positioned directly on the bedrock without any foundation trench, at a lower level than the inner curtain wall. The wall was between 2.3 and 2.5 m wide where the upper courses of the outer curtain had bulged. The emplekton was over one metre wide. The excavation did not produce any elements providing an absolute date for the wall’s construction. The presence of charcoal in the collapse and discovery within the latter of a bronze arrow head with a triangular section and the remains of its wooden shaft, may indicate the violent destruction of the complex.

Inside the curtain wall, continuation of the excavation in the squares explored in 2005 did not reveal any structures. However, lenses of burning were identified on top of the bedrock. A pit surrounded by stones, containing pottery fragments and iron nails, may have been a refuse pit. The archaeological deposit overlying the rock seems rather thin, perhaps as the result of being disturbed by actions such as the breach in the perimeter wall. To date no evidence of destruction or abandonment has been seen. A preliminary examination of the pottery dated it to the 5th and 4th century B.C. The lower layer, which may represent a floor level, produced several fragments of choroplastic from a draped figure with a caduceus and fragments of the fillet from an imbrex, the first evidence for the presence of a tiled roof.

New and important finds came from two trenches dug on the south side of the site with the aim of checking the stratigraphy. The first identified the edge of the summit plateau, which sloped sharply away from north to south. At this point, in the layer above the bedrock, numerous fragments of Ionian cups datable to the second half of the 6th century and amphorae probably produced at Locri came to light. This layer also produced two winged arrow heads made of bronze, with a hollow haft and lateral hook, datable to the 6th and 5th century B.C. The second trench, dug in order to explore a presumed robber trench, produced late 6th and early 5th century B.C. pottery and two coins: a bronze of Locri Epizefiri datable to the first thirty years of the 3rd century B.C. and a 5 lira coin of the Italian Republic minted between 1946 and 1950.