The Castro do Cruito is one of the best studied of the county of Baião. In addition to this, Mantel, Crasto, and Portomanso are identified.
Located in the parish of the Gove, it is an old defensive stronghold with an excellent geographical situation, whose occupation dates back to the first century AD. W..
Rising from the valley, it occupies the crown of a knoll near the left bank of the Ovil River.
In the Cruito castro, there are still two lines of wall, the surrounding moat, and the remains of the two towers that mark the upper entrance of the town. Several vestiges of circular and rectangular houses are still visible.
Part of the estate discovered during the archaeological excavations carried out in the 1980s, it is guarded by the archeology nucleus of the Baião municipal museum and includes various types of pottery, mainly kitchen containers and a small glass of sigillata, bronze fibula, several beads and a denarius of Emperor Mark Antony.
