Archaeological Site:

The Bungtod Open Site is a hill, made of Dolomite, with an elevation of 113 metres above sea level (masl).
It is located in Purok I, Barangay Camanga, Manticao. The area is privately owned by Captain Arleen Taduran of Barangay Camanga.
According to her, part of the hill was quarried during the early 1980s and they found human skeleton associated with tradeware ceramics and a stoneware placed on top of the skull. The skeleton was found beside the Ibatree (Averrhoabilimbi L. Oxalidaceae). According to folklore, Taduran added, Iba trees were used as burial markers in the past by the Higaunon.
The Higaunon, also known as the ‚people of the mountain,‛ is one of the ethnolinguistic groups that mostly occupy the mountainous regions of northern Mindanao.
The team recovered 93 artifacts such as earthenware sherds,
porcelain sherds, and stoneware sherds. Some of these earthenware
sherds have stamped and incised designs. Identified tradeware
ceramics were associated with the Kitchen Qing (18th to 20th
centuries CE) and Vietnamese wares (14th—16th centuries CE)

The site is on private property

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