Research activity continued in the only excavation trench still active (trench 7), in the western part of the Acropolis next to the saddle. Excavation -albeit reduced on the field, and focused on the completion of the stratigraphic investigation and of the study and reorganization of findings and documentation – proceeded apace, aided by the extremely favorable climate.
The research could rely on increasingly limited funding.
Excavations were resumed only in the north-eastern part of the trench (“7 North”). The draining floor underlying the Recent Bronze Age horseshoe-shaped domestic oven, removed in 2011, rested on fill deposits, characterized by the discharge partly of ceramic fragments, partly of burnt clay lumps (concotto), probably witnessing the destruction of former pyrotechnological facilities.
The stratigraphic position of some Italo-Mycenaean finds which came to light during the past campaigns, including a widely reassembled pot, has been ascertained: some fragmentscame to light in the layers beneath the oven. This result is relevant for the chrono-typological definition of the sequence of the local Bronze Age pottery.
In the southern portion of trench 7 North, the traces of two distinct wall-foundation gullies have been explored. They are part of the sequence of huts rebuilt in this spot one over the other several times: the gullies are the continuation of two similar gullies identified in previous years more to NW. It is possible now to outline with precision the shape of some of the huts continuously rebuilt on this protohistoric artificial terrace (at least 6 phases are known, since at least the Recent and until the Late Bronze Age).

Surface check surveys were carried out, in the site of Valle Carlodraga, found in 1979, not far from Broglio: it was characterized by scarce ceramic finds, not precisely datable, and by an anomalous position with respect to the dominant model during protohistory: it is located on a moderate slope, in a non-defended location, along the small valley of the Carlodraga river. The 2012 findings date only to the late Neolithic, showing that it is not a protohistoric site.
At the base of the Broglio hill, on its northern side, immediately over the torrent Marzuca, a landslide level falling from Broglio – perhaps partly reworked by the river- has been found, on the advice of the fellow geologists of the University of Calabria. It contained only materials of Classical or Hellenistic phase (V-IV century BC.), including a fragment of a footed basin (louterion), perhaps hinting at a votive activity on the hill, in a period still poorly documented.

The campaign included a thorough ordering of the storerooms, with the completion of the finds database, which has now reached a fully articulated structure and function. This reorganization made possible the ongoing preparation of preliminary and final detailed reports.
As for the works for the development of the archaeological park, according to the funds obtained by the Municipality from the Arcus spa (Call 2010), the executive project was recently completed, with the approval of the Superintendency. The works hopefully will start soon.