The site of L’Esquerda is located on a 12-hectare peninsula, which takes advantage of one of the first meanders cut with escarpments on the river Ter as it enters the Guilleries. This gives it a strategic position and control over the Vic plain and the main communication route to the coast of Girona. This fact probably explains the long human occupation of the site, which extends from the Late Bronze Age to the middle Ages, with a short break in Roman times.

The latest excavation campaigns in the interior of House 4 correspond to hut floors dating approximately to the 10th century BC. Evidence of a habitat corresponding to the Early Iberian period has also been documented. At the end of the 5th century BC or the beginning of the 4th century BC, they organized and fortified the settlement: on the north side, the only accessible part of the meander, a strong dry stone wall was built crossed by a longitudinal street, with internal chambers, or armora, which together measure six meters in width. On the outside, two massive towers, one square and the other rectangular, flank the street and protect the gateway of the settlement.

At the end of the 3rd century BC, the oppidum suffered a serious fire, and the wall, part of the rooms, and the street were destroyed. A century later, in the recent Iberian period (2nd-1st century BC), L’Esquerda was rebuilt: they placed the habitat on a higher level. The occupation levels of this last Iberian settlement have been greatly deteriorated - in the sectors excavated so far - due to the subsequent cultivation of the land occupied by the site.

At the beginning of the 1st century BC, L’Esquerda was abandoned. No Roman settlement has been documented, and until the beginning of the Middle Ages, there are no more traces of occupation in this area.