This paper presents the initial results of the excavation of the Makangit Maliit na Bato (MNB) Rockshelter Site in Barangay New Ibajay, El Nido, northern Palawan. The majority and nature of recovered materials from this archaeological site (i.e., human bones, earthenware sherds, metals, shell and glass beads) categorize it as a jar burial site during the Metal Periods, or around 500 BC to AD 900. Considering the other cultural materials found (i.e., chert flakes, tradeware potsherds), however, could extend the tentative date of the site’s use to the 19th century AD and, on the opposite direction of the spectrum, probably to an earlier period. It is thus possible that the site was used for burial for a longer period of time, and that materials previously thought to characterize the Metal periods may have still been in use into the later period.