The new campaign aimed to complete the sequences in a number of areas already underway, and to open new trenches in the medieval cloister. Furthermore, study of the walls continued and the first quantification of the finds was undertaken prior to the division of the site into periods.

Excavation continued in sector 2400/9000, situated in front of the church façade, where the intensive use as a cemetery until the modern period had slowed down the stratigraphical and anthropological investigations, which will thus continue next year. In this zone, as in other parts of area 2000, once the excavation got beyond the late medieval funerary phases burials were uncovered dating to the period of the monastery’s foundation (end of the 11th century) and also to the preceding period, in relation to a pre-existing rural church (end of the 10th century).

As regards sectors 3200 and 3400, the most significant data comes in part from the evidence provided by the surviving walls, in part from the earliest medieval occupation phases. One of the monastery entrances was found in a wall on the south side and a better picture was gained of the development of the cloistered area, which was confirmed to have grown progressively between the 12th and 14th century. Regarding the rest, the area later occupied by the cloister, in the period preceding 1100A.D. was occupied by a cemetery (within a radius of circa 25 m from the church), probably enclosed by a palisade, whose circuit was almost the same as the cloister’s perimeter walls. Among the burials was a female inhumation, with clothes and grave goods, the dating of which is to be defined.

Lastly, work continued in trench 4000, where the burials seem distinguished by a net preponderance of female individuals and sub-adults, and by stone grave markers and cushions. The graves were not overlying, probably due to the shorter period of use of this sector of the site for funerary use. In some cases the remains of wooden planks were found, resting on stones providing partial protection for the deceased’s remains.

On the basis of the data collected during 2009 it was possible to revise the archaeological sequence, whose absolute chronology and division into periods (circa 950 A.D.-circa 1490 A.D., with episodes of robbing from circa 1730 to 1850, divided into five periods) are however provisional, especially as regards the earliest occupation phases. The excavation of numerous tombs in the cemetery area connected to the rural church around 1000 A.D. and to the monastery from the 12th century onwards has provided a first insight into the palaeo-demographical potential of this settlement. Lastly, the physiognomy and functional structuring of the monastic site was reconstructed, at least for the central period of use (12th-14th century), which also increased understanding of the preceding situation.