In 2016, work continued in the sectors opened in 2015. The excavations were very complex in the area of Terrace 2A due to the sloping position of the stratigraphy with the consequent effect of solifluction; the presence of the structure’s roughly-made containing walls; the overlapping of diverse episodes, for example a wall built south of and abutting the south wall of structure 2A contained a late antique coin. It was therefore decided to proceed by removing and documenting the stratigraphic contexts subsequent to the floor surface identified in 2015 and denominated US 2A in 2016, and not contextual with the structure excavated in 2015. Overall, structure 2A was seen to relate to a rather shoddily made hut. Closed to the south by a dry-stone wall, the roof was probably supported by four timber posts, for which two postholes and a pile-driver were found. The fourth supporting element in the north-eastern corner must have been eroded away by solifluction. South of this small temporary structure, the excavations uncovered a hole/midden, which contained pottery. Pottery and lithics were also found on the floor surfaces of structure 2A, whose earliest phases can be attributed to the Copper Age, while the midden contained elements datable to the Recent/Final Bronze Age, indicating there was a second phase of use on the site. At the foot of the hill a significant find was a section that was noted by the Superintendency in the 1980s, but was no longer recognisable for the disturbance caused by the construction of a motocross track, now no longer in use. During previous campaigns, the section had been looked for along the track that is clearly visible in aerial photographs and on CTR. This season it was found, thanks also to careful cleaning of the undergrowth. A layer with an organic charcoally matrix containing numerous fragments of bone, lithics, and pottery was exposed in three trenches corresponding with three sections at the foot of the hill, one metre apart from each other.

Trench 1 produced the most significant results. The following layers were identified: US 1 = dry-stone terracing, constituted by a base of about ten large semi-worked blocks, at least 20 × 50 cm on the facing side; above the base, the terracing was formed by stones of 15-30 cm; US 2 = a fairly tidy accumulation/ loose foundation of stones sized c. 20 × 7 cm, in a brown matrix; US 3 = anthropic layer rich in charcoal, pottery and bone fragments, flint, shells, abundant organic material, in a matrix with a plastic consistency; US 4 = manmade alignment of boulders below US 3; US 5 = chaotic accumulation of stone, naturally formed, rich in roots and malacofauna. An abundance of lithic material, very fragmented pottery and bone was identified in US 3 of all the sections. This material is currently being studied, like the rest of the abundant finds from the site, which is confirmed to have been occupied for the first time in the late Neolithic/Eneolithic period and subsequently in the final phases of the Bronze Age. The terraces date to the historical period, for the earliest the dating will be provided by the study of several very worn coins found within them.