Castel de Pedana is a prehistoric fortified village with a long occupation, situated on the “levelled” summit of a hill, created by erosion in the wide fluvialglacial Pleistocene terraces of the Valbelluna, on the right bank of the river Piave. The hill dominates the Cordevole and Piave valleys, to the south-west the Brentaz torrent and to the south/south-east the Ru Marna torrent form its western and eastern boundaries. Although there are no walled structures that can be attributed to a historic castle, the toponym Castel is indicative. The material collected on the south/south-east slope comprises fragments of ceramic vessels, evidence of bone/horn working (punches, awls, spatulas) and flint working. These elements indicate the site was in use between the early Bronze Age and an indefinable phase between the late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. Of particular importance for the early Bronze Age was the presence of elements from the Poladian culture which are not common in the east and north-eastern Veneto region and, above all, fragments of fine black impasto with burnished surface of the eastern Wieselburg-Gata facies.

Trenches were put in on the summit and the eastern side of the hill; the summit was heavily disturbed during the First World War; however, excavations in these areas found no evidence of occupation which preceded the Bronze Age. The trench on the hillside showed that the archaeological finds came from a surface layer of colluvial soil, whilst the section that was uncovered showed a stratigraphy characterized by sterile fine sand and limestone crusts attributable to the passage from the Pleistocene to Holocene period, created through the transport of sediment during late and post-glacial stream formation. Research on the upper part of the eastern flank provided evidence of occupation between the late Bronze Age (evolved Recent and Final Bronze Age, XIII-XI B.C.). In sector III traces of terracing and pottery (fragments of flanged vessels, handles, bases, wall sherds), bone and bronze working (fragments of slag) were found. In sector VI, fragments of animal bones and pottery can be attributed to the same context as sector III; however, the stratigraphy is wider, with traces of occupation both in colluvial layers and seemingly in situ.