Over the half month of the test dig at Tamalin in Puli, searchers discovered holes for house pillars as well as implements for daily use. These are evidence that this was perhaps a settlement in ancient times, what a modern urbanite might call "a residential district."
埔中大馬璘遺址試掘半個月以來，已經發現房屋柱洞的結構，及陶器等生活器物，證明此處可能是遠古人的聚落，也就是今人所稱的「住宅區」。