The site was discovered in 1993 in the course of trenching works along the road known as Tal-Barrani (Zejtun Local Council). The site was excavated over the following months by a team of archaeologists from the National Museum of Archaeology, led by the then Curator Anthony Pace. The intervention involved the complete excavation of two rock-cut, funerary features:

Feature 1: An Early Roman shaft and chamber grave, which was found to be still sealed and contained the remains of six articulated individuals. The ceramics found associated with these inhumations suggests the tomb was last used in the course of the 3rd Century AD.

Feature 2: A Mid to Late Roman/Byzantine catacomb, including a shaft, a central chamber with ‘mensa’ and four burial chambers of the arcosolia type. The burial situation within the catacomb included a minimum of five articulated individuals. Two young individuals were found in one of the burial chambers, while three adults were found buried within the central chamber directly over the ‘mensa’. Other large human bone assemblages were recovered from the remaining stratification – these were not found in a position of articulation.