In year 2014, research took place in Broglio from June 9th to 27th; the anticipation of the campaign (generally held in September-October) was due to the fit with the activities for the completion of the Archaeological Park at Broglio.

Excavation activity continued only on the “central hut” remains, i.e. trench D of 1979-1985 excavations, renamed trench 13 in 2013. Trench 7 (stopped in 2013) was not resumed, and sampling activites in Trench 1 (trench B of 1979-85 excavations), performed in 2013, were over.
The 2014 excavation brought to a significant improvement of our understanding of the structural sequence in the area and finally prepared the area for the realization of the visitors’ facilities of the Archaeological Park.

The new (and older) potsherd pavement, identified in 2014, was carefully removed for study and preservation, and its original function as a hearth was confirmed, as well as its connections with a building phase preceding the well-known ‘central hut’ excavated in 1980-82.
More traces of this former building phase came to light underneath the floor of the ‘central hut’, showing a row of post-holes, likely part of a wall limiting an apse-shaped end of a hut, the apse located toward West, like in the ‘central hut’. The front side of the hut extended in the D east trench of 1983-85 excavations, outside the area of 2013-14 research; the new wall can be connected to other gullies and post-holes found during these excavations. Comprehensively, the hut was located more to the East and to the South of the ‘central hut’.

This new hut can be dated to an early phase of the Recent Bronze Age, i.e. older than the ‘central hut’; the pottery association of the older potsherd pavement and of the few remaining associated layers is therefore of particular significance.
This new evidence has allowed to reconnect more extensively the building history of the Central hut to the former building phases in the area, helping to grasp better the local complex sequence of buildings, hosted by the anthropic terraces cut into the side slope of the Broglio “acropolis”.

In 2014, the building activity for the realization of the archaeological park brought to the discovery of a new feature, a huge beehive-shaped pit, located on the top of the “acropolis”, that was included in a rescue activity called Trench 15. The pit was intersected by the foundation trench of the fire-estinguishing tank, built in service to the reconstructed Bronze Age hut. It was about 2 m deep and can be dated to the Middle Bronze Age.

This discovery, in an area totally empty of other archaeological features, shows once more the wide dispersion of archaeological features (pits) dating to the MBA, all over the acropolis, testifying an extensive occupation of the 1.5 ha plateau since the beginnning of its occupation.