 This myth was used by Braga clergy in order to justify that city's religious leading role in Christian Iberia.The hill has ruins of a small castro settlement of around the 2nd century B.C known as "Castro de Laundos", that could have been an outpost of Cividade de Terroso.A vase with jewels inside, used in a Castro culture death ritual, was found in 1904 this is one of the most important jewelry artifacts found in Northwest Iberian Peninsula.