This season, the excavation of the interior of hut 17 was completed. This was a large sub-circular hut (SN 6.80 m; WE 5.40 m) with two large facing niches on the NW/SE axis and three small niches in the N and E wall and inside the W niche. On the east side of the hut, which was on the highest level of the entire village, the standing wall survives to the exceptional height of almost 4 m.
The stratigraphy was formed by ashy layers with inclusions of loose stones and conglomerates of cobblestones, probably relating to the use of fire, and a chalk layer only present in some parts of the room. To the west of the entrance several stone slabs appeared to constitute a floor. AT the end of the excavation, the bedrock, exposed throughout, showed some interesting geological “cord-like” conformations. In the spaces in the natural rock had been filled with stones and sterile soil to level the surface for the creation of the floor.

Excavation also took place south of the entrance where several collapses were removed and numerous marlstone and basalt slabs were found, the nature of which will be clarified by the coming campaigns. There were numerous interesting finds: the remains of deer antlers, mainly found close to the niches and the bench up against the north wall, good quality lithics and pottery and a large light grey impasto vase. Sondages were opened in the area SE of hut 17, which revealed an external wall of a sub-circular structure apparently laterally abutting hut 17. this new structure will provide further data about the layout of the eastern part of the village’s northern sector.