While many of the items found on the site from the Iron Age were clearly imported into the area, towards the end of the period there was a gradual increase in the presence of locally made ceramics.

[2] Further excavations starting on 13 July 1987, financed by the Portuguese Institute for Architectural Heritage (Instituto Português do Património Arquitetónico), with logistical support from the municipal council and tourism bureau, resulted in the definition of a special zone of the villa fructuária.

[2] The discovery of numerous bell-shaped ceramic fragments document the occupation of this area to a proto-historic phase of settlement.

[2] The granary, which is large and extremely well built, has buttresses distributed along the northern and eastern foundation corridors, indicating a walled courtyard that used natural slab flooring.

[2] Also along the southern edge was an area expressly designed for an earth oven to bake bread and an altar in honor of Triborunis (an indigenous divinity).