Morro de Mezquitilla

The site of Morro de Mezquitilla, located on a hill above the river Algarrobo, was a peninsula in Phoenician times. The oldest remains are from the Chalcolithic period, but the most significant occupation is from the archaic Phoenician period (9th-5th centuries BC). Roman remains were also found up to the 1st century BC. The site includes square-plan dwellings and metallurgical furnaces, indicating a metal recycling area. Its material is crucial to studies of the Phoenician world on the Iberian Peninsula.