Following the excavation campaigns in 1999, 2004 and 2007, whose preliminary results have been published, a further campaign took place in 2012. This involved a field delimited by two land reclamation channels, a road and a quarry, of which about 40% was investigated in 2007. The 2012 excavations extended the area to almost 1000 m2, corresponding to almost the entire area in concession. This open area excavation between the previously dug trenches, provided a better understanding of the spatial relationships between the dwellings built in perishable materials and, more generally, an overall reading of the part of the village being examined.

Two more ‘negative’ structures were excavated (Pits 6 and 7). The first, ovoid in shape, was only intercepted in the lower part of the cut; the second smaller pit was filled with ashy layers containing pottery, animal bones, carbonized wood and waste materials perhaps the result of iron working. In the area to the south, the excavation of another pit identified in 2007 and interpreted as a possible well was completed. The excavation partially confirmed this hypothesis, as the unusual ‘sinkhole’ shape of the pit has been interpreted as an unfinished attempt at excavation in the Byzantine period. Lastly, the continuation of two longitudinal cuts identified in 2004 was documented. These may have been drainage channels.

Work continued in the northern part of the area, where in previous years a series of contexts relating to a wall and extensive collapse were exposed. The wall, about one metre wide, was part of an enclosure and was exposed for a length of about 16 m. Nearby a hoard of nine iron artefacts was found, including a hatchet, chisel, a cauldron handle and folded sickle.

On the upper part of the collapse, limited evidence of temporary occupation post-dating the Byzantine village was found, for example a small jug datable to the 9th-12th century, found in a lens of ashy soil.

A survey of the territory of Supersano was undertaken while the excavations were in progress, with the aim of contextualising the Byzantine village within the settlement dynamics of the surrounding territory. The area surveyed in this first campaign verified the extension of several sites partially noted during previous inspections. In a field situated about 100 m north-east of the excavation area, at the Mass. Scorpo, two surface scatters of pottery were defined, probably relating to several structures relating to the Byzantine village. In the locality of Falconiera, the limits and chronology of a Bronze Age site were defined, along with those of an imperial Roman farm covering about one hectare.