For the second year investigations were undertaken on the fortified prehistoric village (castelliere). Situated on a plain it is surrounded by square earth works with its corners oriented to the cardinal points. Over 20m wide and c.3.50m high, it had been altered several times but is the only example in Friuli which conserves intact its circuit of earthworks. This primitive defensive system comprised a small embankment of clayey earth, c.6m wide and 0.90-1.00m high, and an external ditch. In order to investigate the earthworks the line of a length of the ditch, at the northern corner, was followed and then dug out. The ditch curves slightly to the north which suggests that from its origins (early Middle Bronze Age?) there was an entrance to the village at this point. Later (Mid-Late Bronze Age), a row of wooden coffers, filled with gravel and clay, was placed on top of the first embankment. The sides of this row of coffers were banked up with layers of the same materials and the defences were completed, on the exterior, by a new ditch. In time it became necessary to repair the central part of the embankment and further strengthen its sides: the exterior was reinforced with extra strata of gravel and clay and wooden coffers filled with cobbles were added to the interior. In a third phase, the second ditch, like the first, was obliterated and the embankment widened externally with a new series of coffers (on the interior the ancient remains have been damaged by recent agricultural activity). The most important data collected regards the stratigraphic relationship between the original embankment and several inhumations, two of which were excavated in 2004. At the base of the structure a third tomb emerged, positioned on the same alignment as the embankment. It contained two bodies in a supine position, on above the other, without trace of a shroud. The lower jaw and several vertebrae from the upper body were displaced and lay by its femurs and part of the cranium had been removed. A fourth burial which, like the others, contained no grave goods was uncovered on the edge of the earliest ditch. It contained the skeleton of a young female in a supine position which had probably been wrapped in a shroud. (Paola Càssola Guida, Susi Corazza)