The territory of the municipality of Cascais has been an active zone of human occupation since the Neolithic, but extensively explored during the Roman occupation of the peninsula, from the complex industrial base uncovered on this site, so near the centre of the ancient Olisipo [REF].
The site was first recognized by Francisco de Paula Oliveira, of the Portuguese geological services, who, at the end of the 1890s (1889 specifically) first referred to the Roman villa [REF].