In the parish of Sendim, on a small spur in the middle of the hillside at the foot of Monte do Crasto, the foundations of a Roman-era building were discovered. Discovered in 1992, systematic archaeological excavation work began in 1997, at the initiative of the Felgueiras Town Council, and has continued to this day.

Built, as we see it, at the end of the 3rd century and beginning of the 4th century, it is the result of the transformation of a house built between the middle of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century, which was continuously inhabited until the middle of the 6th century, and part of its ruins may have been occupied at the beginning of the 7th century.

The house was structured around a porticoed peristyle, with long corridors and various rooms, bedrooms and other compartments paved with polychrome mosaics with geometric motifs. During the major renovation and expansion works that the villa underwent at the end of the 3rd century and beginning of the 4th century, larger baths were added, replacing the original ones, of which only part of the laconicum remained.