To ensure the site's preservation, the TCCAB in its turn contacted the county's Bureau of Education, asking it to suspend the school renovations. The two bureaus then raised NT $ 1.85 million to fund a dig by an archaeological team from the Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology (IHP).
文化局不願見遺址遭人為破壞，於是請教育局暫停大園國小校舍翻新計劃，同時兩局共同出資 185 萬元委託中央研究院歷史語言所考古團隊進駐開挖。