LOCATION:

At 2.9 km from Alaior, in the highway that leads to Cala en Porter from this town. Just beside the highway, to the right going to the aforementioned creek.

Alaior.

It was, without a doubt a great town, since the numerous preserved constructions demonstrate: a "talayot" of circular plan in the top of what seems an artificial platform, the remains of other, dug a short time ago, the one that is possibly the "taula" best conserved in the island, a "columned room", several "hypogeums", among them one with patio, etc. Inside the same enclosure, negotiated today for the "Fundació Illes Balears", there are also the remains, very deteriorated, of an old hermitage, which indicates a long occupation of the settlement.

The excavations carried out between 1974 and 1982 for M. Fernández-Miranda and W. Waldren inside the enclosure of the "taula" gave four occupation levels:

Level I: medieval occupation dated around the conquest of the island by Alfonso III (1286 A.D.)
Level II: imperial Roman time.
Levels III and IV: Talayotic occupation (with some radiocarbon calibrated dates of the 997, 994, 866, 470, 255 and 228 B.C., obtained of coal and bones of animals).

In a same way, we have other three dates, 1080±70, 1070±70 and 1020±70 B.C. (1310, 1305, 1238 B.C., once calibrated), obtained of coal and cereals picked up in a cabin that is under the second talayot, which give us, some occupation moments of that and a date post quem in what refers to the construction of this.

In all ways, the beginning of the occupation of the area of the village seems to be dated in a very old moment, around the 1800 B.C. (that is to say, in the Pretalayotic time).

Not very far, there is the well of "Na Patarrà", which, without a doubt, gave water to the village. The "naveta of intermediate pattern" of "Torralbet" is also very near.