In 2016, a campaign of archeological excavations at the Castro, in the course of a protocol established between the Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos and the Department of Sciences and Technical Patrimony by the Faculty of Letters, from the University of Porto, who discovered the ruins of a 1st-century house, a few walls and artefacts from southern Spain, Italy and north Africa.

[1] One of the detectable buildings, with a rectangular plan, has a floor of clay and masonry fireplace, whose sill still conserves a decorative twin serpents, which has been interpreted by archaeologist Neves dos Santos as being a sanctuary linked to a funerary cult.

[1] The same archaeologist detected another edifice that conserved the base column and respective shaft that suggest a Roman temple.

[1] On the western flank, the area has been excavated, resulting in the unearthing of family homes of circular and rectangular plans, with granite slabs patios.

[1] The artefacts discovered on the site, included fragments of Iron Age ceramics, Roman pottery (some painted), amphora, oil lamps, glass, tegula, imbrex, handmills, weights, decoration, escoria, metallic artefacts (handcrafted tools, agricultural implements), numismatics, late Roman ceramics, common and glazed Medieval pottery.