Research activity continued in the only excavation trench still active (trench 7), in the western part of the Acropolis next to the saddle, on the whole extending over about 170 square meters. The research was restricted because of the limitations of funding.

In the main area of the trench, excavations have proceeded in the south-western part, i.e. the area of recent years’ enlargement. In this area, the excavation aims at bringing to light the massive remains of collapsing materials and fills under which stone, wood and clay walls mark the large sunken building complex of the Late Bronze Age, dating from about 1300-1200 BC.

Beneath the lowest layers of the sequence of draining and beaten clay floors of the Early Iron Age, and the thick overlapping deposits marked by use floors dating to the Final Bronze Age, a thick clean clay cover came to light, extremely compact and extending over at least 4×3 meters, deepening upslope (from South to North): it is probably the basal fill of a depression, whose function remains uncertain. This could be a basin for the transformation of materials or a water collection facility, which is cut into and built above the large sunken structure. The installation dates to an ancient phase of the Final Bronze Age.

The associated materials confirm the importance of the site of Broglio during the phase.

In the north-eastern part of the trench (“7 North”), out of the large depression hosting the impressive sunken building structure of the Late Bronze Age, excavations continued over a higher level protohistoric artificial terrace: the exploration of a tight succession of housing phases, which had begun in previous years, was carried on here. A building continuity of a centuries-old sequence of overlapping huts can be outlined (until now 5 building phases, since at least the Recent and up to the Final Bronze Age, without any evident discontinuity, i.e. at least two centuries).

In the 2010 campaign the excavation specifically progressed towards East, removing the oldest living floors of the Final Bronze Age and some of the Recent Bronze Age, in order to completely expose the horseshoe-shaped domestic oven of the Recent Bronze Age, which had already come to light: its removal is now planned for 2011. Coeval with the beaten floor overlying the oven, a small sub-quadrangular flooring came to light (ca. 0,6×0,6 m); it was charactesrized by calcareous concretions and some burnt soil lumps, and rested upon a draining potsherd pavement, of corresponding shape. At Broglio, similar concentrations of concretions are generally associated with draining levels underlying firing floors.

New initiatives have been undertaken to try to complete the archaeological park and to reconstruct the experimental replica of the Recent Bronze Age hut, which burned down in a tremendous wildfire during the summer of 2007. In fact, the Municipality of Trebisacce participated in 2010 to the ARCUS call for interventions on Safeguarding, Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts, with a budget request of 1,000,000 €; the results of the selection are pending.