_Historia de las excavaciones

1962-1963

Discovery of the first altar stones on the mount.

1964

The deposit of the first altar stones is recorded in the register of Vigo’s Quiñones de León Municipal Museum.

1970

Discovery of the altar stones by the Massó family.

1971

Publication on the part of F. Bouza Brey, J. M.ª Álvarez Blázquez and E. Massó Bolibar of 15 altar stones deposited in Vigo’s Quiñones de León Municipal Museum.

1978

José Suárez Mariño, collaborator of the Museum of Pontevedra, deposited 19 altar stones there.

1994

The epigraphs on the altar stones were included in the volume of the Corpus of Roman Inscriptions in Galicia corresponding to Pontevedra.

2003

First excavation campaign, focused on the area of the temple and funded by the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid and Cangas Town Council.

2004

Second excavation campaign, focused on the area surrounding the temple and the hillfort’s acropolis. Conservation and restoration work.

2005

Third excavation campaign, which extended the sector focused on in the previous campaign on the hillfort’s acropolis, and the opening of a new sector towards where the entrance would be found in later campaigns.

2006

Fourth excavation campaign, extending the intervention of the previous year. Conservation and restoration work.

2007

Fifth excavation campaign, focused on the area of access to the site. Conservation and restoration work.

2008

Sixth excavation campaign, extending the previous sector and which would uncover one of the points of access to the site.

2010-2012

The German Archaeological Institute in Madrid financed different studies focusing on the temple.

2013

Work to clear the mount funded by Pontevedra Provincial Council. Conservation and restoration work. Declared a Site of Cultural Interest.

2014

Work to clear the mount funded by Cangas Town Council.

2015

Placement of replicas of 3 altar stones in their original position.

2017

Work to clear the mount funded by Cangas Town Council.

2018

Archaeological intervention funded by Pontevedra Provincial Council for the conservation and restoration of the last excavated sector.

2019

Publication of the study of all of the altar stones discovered in the excavations by the German Archaeological Institute.