This campaign, undertaken by Milan University, aimed to further define the extension, chronological development and function of the large building (10,80 × 8,40 m), uncovered during the 2009 excavations, the so-called “building of the dolia”.

Exploration of Room A (4,20 × 5,60 m), was completed down to the bedrock. In the previous year an occupation/abandonment layer, containing numerous pottery finds and large dolia fragments decorated just below the rim with a raised band, had been identified. Below this, in the northern part of the room, were five cuts in the bedrock, two of which clearly covered by the room’s north and east walls. All of the cuts were filled by the same very hard, compact earth. Some of the cuts also contained animal bones and pottery, including the usual fragments of mono-chrome and bi-chrome matt-painted ware, but also fragments of kalathoi, a vessel form which does not seem to have been produced before the beginning of the 5th century B.C. In the south part of the room there was a layer of levelling covering the irregularities in the bedrock. It was noted that this layer contained more cobbles along the base of the wall.

Therefore, it seems that the phase of these cuts preceded that of the walls’ construction, and that the latter was preceded by the filling of the cuts and levelling of the terrain which can now been dated, on the basis of the pottery finds, to the first half of the 5th century B.C.
A different situation characterised Room B (5,60 × 5,20 m), situated east of, and parallel with Room A. In this case a series of interventions relating to the abandonment of the building were identified. These included two enchytrismos burials, one in a cythera containing an infant, one in a pithos containing two infants, datable on the basis of a preliminary analysis of the materials to between the 5th and 6th century B.C.
The excavation of Room C was completed. Situated at a right-angle to A and B, it closed the complex to the north. The substantial collapse of the large north wall, whose probable function was to contain the slope, was removed and this revealed the continuation of the wall to the east for about five metres. This new stretch was built in a different technique, using smaller stones than those in the wall uncovered in the previous year. On the basis of the relationships with the layers constituting the occupation level and the abandonment of the room, the containing wall seems to be coeval with the walls of the “building of the dolia”.

To conclude, the 2010 excavation has partially changed the first interpretation proposed for the residential complex uncovered in 2008/09: an occupation phase dating to the second half of the 6th century B.C., to which the sunken structures can probably be attributed – characterised by matt-painted ware (wide use of bi-chrome) and the presence of numerous Ionic cups, indicative of a graeco modo bibere which is found elsewhere in the territory – was followed by a phase in which the terrain was levelled. This was followed by the restructuring of the complex with quadrangular rooms delimited by dry-stone walls. It seems that the large dolia for storing dry foodstuffs, the imported black glaze ware and a large part of the banded ware pottery and the mixed style wares fit best into this phase, for the moment dated to the 5th century B.C.

Several pottery fragments, for the moment sporadic, and perhaps also the enchytrismoi, indicate a continuity of occupation during the first half of the 4th century, more precise dating will come from the classification and study of the finds.

The opening of new quadrants to the east of the building in question brought to light another room, separated from B by a passage 1.20 m wide, covered by a collapse similar to that overlying the structures already excavated. The exploration of this sector will continue in autumn 2011.