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Submitted by ShamrockStone on Wednesday, 04 December 2019  Page Views: 584

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Necrópolis de El Castellón
Country: Spain
NOTE: This site is 14.656 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Andalucía Type: Barrow Cemetery
 Nearest Village: Montefrío
Latitude: 37.333000N  Longitude: 3.97577W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Necrópolis de El Castellón
Necrópolis de El Castellón submitted by ShamrockStone : Necrópolis de El Castellón. Site in Andalucía Spain. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery in Andalucía

The burial ground lying on the western flank of the Cerro de Castellón contains large, rectangular, cyst tombs consisting of slabs of rock sunk into the ground around the edge of the grave, which was dug in hitherto unused land and then covered with flat flagstones. The fact that burials were not made one upon the other suggests that some sort of marker may have been erected on the surface above them, such as the headstones found at the head of some tombs. In other areas around and about different forms of tomb have been identified, including some anthropomorphic ones cut into the rock at the north-east of the hillside.

The objects recovered from the village nearby have been dated to the period covering the 8th to the 10th centuries AD, although many of them were probably already quite archaic in their own day. This burial ground, however, has been dated to Visigothic times, which would suggest that the settlement itself could have been begun in the 7th century, before the arrival of the Arabs and the Berbers.
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Necrópolis de El Castellón
Necrópolis de El Castellón submitted by ShamrockStone : Necrópolis de El Castellón. Site in Andalucía Spain. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Necrópolis de El Castellón
Necrópolis de El Castellón submitted by ShamrockStone : Plan of the necropolis. Necrópolis de El Castellón. Site in Andalucía Spain. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Necrópolis de El Castellón
Necrópolis de El Castellón submitted by ShamrockStone : Necrópolis de El Castellón. Site in Andalucía Spain. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Necrópolis de El Castellón
Necrópolis de El Castellón submitted by ShamrockStone (Vote or comment on this photo)

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