The project manager was professor Dario Giorgetti, the teacher of Roman History and ancient topography at Bologna University, together with some students from the faculty of Ravenna and others from the three-years course of Naval Archaeology of Trapani.

The first inspection, made in 2002 by professor Dario Giorgetti together with dottor Antonio Filippi, showed the presence of the remains of an old furnace from the Roman age, kept quite well, in spite of damage from looting.

After securing its safety, the site has been opened to public on May 23, 2015 (only for two days), thanks to the agreement between the municipality of Alcamo, the Archeoclub d’Italia Calatub (with its volunteers) and the Monuments and Fine Arts Department (Soprintendenza dei BB.CC.AA.)

On April 26, 2016, an agreement was signed between the municipality of Alcamo and the Archeoclub d'Italia Calatub for the exploitation of the archaeological site by means of maintenance activities, cleaning, accessibility and research facilitation.

The furnaces were used once for the cooking and production of materials intended for home and building use (dishes, amphoras, tiles and bricks, flat tiles and ordinary ceramics)[10] and they make think of the existence of a productive and handicraft complex strongly connected with the commercial activities of the near port of Castellammare del Golfo, located in a favourable position for the commercial routes of the Mediterranean towards Spain, Sardenia and Rome.

Its conic delta was due to the detritus and compactions of two streams (the canal Molinello and the river San Bartolomeo), with a considerable presence of a natural clayey deposit and a water spring, both of them necessary for the production of ceramics.