The 2007 campaign concentrated on the eastern side of the hill. In the westernmost part of the excavation area, towards the summit, a series of large boulders of diverse morphology and petrology came to light. They formed a continuous row on an north-south alignment and some were dispersed along the slope close to the alignment. They were just below the thick surface grass and their layout showed a certain coherence, given that this was a mixture of elements still in situ and others dislocated by post-depositional activity, caused both by gravitation and the action of the roots from the hornbeam trees covering the summit.

During the examination of the stones to decide which were those dislodged by post-depositional processes as opposed to those still in situ, the petrological differences became evident. In fact, it was noted that the boulders of local, very friable, travertine constituted almost the totality of the alignment forming the first order of the curtain wall of a large wall-terracing. This structure was the outer curtain wall of the fortified settlement, and must have followed the line of the outer perimeter of the flattened hill top. A sub-horizontal structure of medium to small sized cobblestones and clasts abutted the first curtain, joining the first to a second curtain wall situated further up hill and close to the passage between the flat hill top and the hill side.

This complex structural articulation was well enough preserved to define the hill site of Castel de Pedana a fortified settlement in the true sense of the term, as it is a settlement on a naturally defended hilltop, to which a manmade “curtain wall” was added and raised on at least one side of the summit’s perimeter. Perhaps not by chance, this structure is situated in correspondence with the least rugged, though very sheer, side. As regards culture and chronology the 2007 excavation confirmed the scarce data derived from the trenches dug the previous year.

The chronology was well documented by a wide ranging pottery typology and a bronze pin comparable to the Fontanella type, which confirmed the dating, identified in 2006, to between the early Bronze Age I and an early phase of the Late Bronze Age. Furthermore, two fragments of a drinking vessel of the Luco/Laugen-Meluno/Melaun culture, the first fragment being Luco A type and the second Luco B were found. Other pottery fragments may belong to this cultural facies, in fact, there is a question as to whether the fragments of flanged rim are of the Veneto facies or are central alpine. This will be resolved by an in depth study of the finds, supported by comparisons with the alpine sphere, as well as the relative archaeo-geometric analyses.