The site of El Monastil is located 0.5 km north of the modern urban centre of Elda. It occupies an area of approximately 3.5 hectares and is located in the easternmost foothills of the Torreta mountain range, surrounded by a large meander of the River Vinapolo. The material record of the site is between the early second millennium BC. and the Emiral era, with a special development between the Iberian and Visigoth era. Between 1959 and 1977, members of the Archaeology Section of the Excursion Centre of Eldense carried out a long series of interventions in Area 5 and in the lower terraces. They documented a series of rooms, which were completely excavated and provided materials, mostly ceramics, dated principally between the Iberian and Late Roman periods. Years later, in the campaigns of 1984, 1988-1990, 1998-1999, and 2001-2004, now under the technical direction of A. M. Poveda Navarro, director of the Archaeological Museum of Elda, a wider knowledge of the site wass developed (Areas 1, 3, and 4). The Archaeology Section of the Excursion Centre of Eldense underwent considerable archaeological activity, recorded in its journals. As a result, the aforementioned rooms were exhumed. The excavation was almost complete, apart from some strata, those deepest and closest to the basic rock of the hill. Therefore, the archaeological intervention of 2004 was focused on rooms 15-18 of the north slope of Area 5 to recover general information and to finalize the excavation. Following these works, the building remains have been adequately consolidated and preserved. This new archaeological excavation has provided limited but valuable stratigraphic information and material, principally from the Bronze Age, which could allow the establishment of a more precise sequence of the evolution of habitat in Area 5. In the present campaign, it is important to note the remains of a post hole dated in the Bronze Age and associated with some strata of the filler layers of this period, located in Department 15, as well as some modest internal dividing structures of the same area. The ceramic remains are principally container walls]without a particular form. A unique find is that of a sickle tooth. Room 18 also has ceramic remains and bones from the Bronze Age, which correspond to some or various prior phases of the construction of the _oppidum_ during the Iberian period. This period is barely represented, given that, apart from the partitioning structures of the areas, the rest of the strata were principally excavated years before by the Archaeology Section of the Excursion Centre of Elda. (translation by Alex Redmond)