 The Marinids constructed a tower nearby, known today as the "Torre de Cartagena", using stones from the ruined Roman walls.The site of Carteia was rediscovered by a young British Army officer, John Conduitt, who served in Gibraltar as commissary to the garrison between April 1713 to early 1717.He identified the city as having stood on a hill then known as El Rocadillo, which Richard Ford described in his "A Handbook for Travellers in Spain" (1845)