Poblado ibérico amurallado del Tos Pelat, Ancient Iberian settlement in Montcada, Spain.

The Tos Pelat is a walled Iberian oppidum of more than two hectares on the boundary between Bétera and Montcada, near the Torres Torres road. Its north-west stretch of wall runs over 120 m, about 32 m of it excavated, with an attached tower; the wall is 2.5 m high on average and up to 6 m wide at the north-east end, built on a masonry base with mud-brick courses. Two houses of over 100 m² each have been documented.

The Iberian oppidum was inhabited between the 6th century and the middle of the 4th century BCE and belonged to the Edetani tribe. It was apparently abandoned peacefully, as no traces of fighting or catastrophe have been found. Its name appears in no ancient source, unlike neighbouring Edeta (Llíria) and Saguntum-Arse (Sagunt). The site was first mentioned in 1920 by Nicolau-Primitiu Gómez i Serrano, and the botanist Cavanilles had earlier referred only to its 17th- and 18th-century quarries.

Residents decorated their walls in blue, white, and red, showing how skillfully they adorned their homes with patterns and designs. These painted surfaces reveal that the community valued artistic expression in everyday life.

The site lies in the partida of Tos Pelat, near the Torres Torres road in Bétera, on the boundary between Bétera and Montcada. Excavation, consolidation and outreach work has been carried out in recent campaigns sponsored by Montcada town council, under municipal archaeologist Josep Maria Burriel and University of Valencia lecturer Xelo Mata. Only about 32 m of the north-west wall, including one tower, have been excavated; the rest of the over-120-m stretch remains under soil.

Archaeologists discovered two lead sheets bearing rare ancient writing in the Iberian language and script. These metal tablets are valuable finds because they offer direct evidence of how people communicated in writing at that time.