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The site of Cerro de las Fuentes has undergone a major consolidation project and value through the development of a local public employment program.
The mayor of Caravaca, Domingo Aranda, who today visited the enclave of the hamlet of Archivel, stressed that this action is twofold social, as it has provided a job and trained unemployed people and has allowed the architectural restoration of one of the most important sites in the municipality.
For his part, Councillor for Employment in the City of Caravaca, Salvador Gomez, has been reported to have invested some 200,000 euros, which was funded by the Regional Employment Service and Training (SEF), which allowed the recruitment for nine months from 1 archaeologist archeology 4 pawns, 1 bricklayer and 3 pieces of construction.
The work carried out three towers have been documented and some dwelling structures of interest.
The structures are dated to the third millennium before Christ, stand the ruins of a Roman fort in the mid first century BC, which was built during the civil wars that pitted supporters of Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.
In order to present the work in the Cerro de las Fuentes, Caravaca City Council has scheduled for next Saturday, June 23, an open house from 10 to 13.00.
"During this activity will be informed of the results which have led the recent excavations and archaeological research in this rather long history," as reported by the local archaeologist, Francisco Brotons.
The project undertaken in the Cerro de las Fuentes, besides occupying nine people unemployed for nine months and promote the recovery of cultural heritage, is continuing work to revitalize rural Caravaca Cross, seeking the recovery and in value of those equity that favor social development and sustainable employment.
HISTORICAL FACTS:
At the end of the third millennium, the population settled at the foot of this hill in the hamlet of Casa Noguera encastillan and protect their habitat with a solid stone wall.
This is a small town in the Bronze Age, still poorly known to archaeologists, on which some thousands of years later would rise a Roman castle.
The late-Republican Roman castle of Cerro de las Fuentes Archivel took very well the natural conditions of this hill to have a wide visual dominance over the territory of the river basin formed by the rivers and Quípar Argos, an important natural corridor within land communication between the Levant and Upper Andalusia, which in itself justify the geopolitical importance it acquired the territory of the basin in the Roman civil conflict of the Iberian Peninsula during the s.
BC, and that in these lands brought about the settlement of military garrisons by the warring factions.
The Archivel castellum occupies the southernmost part of the Cerro de las Fuentes, to 998 m, height remains guarded with a simple defense system composed of the castle walls themselves, which open doors and gates, and a system of advanced passive defense structure formed by a thick solid walls protecting the northern access from any attack by the Roman artillery machines.
The castle walls, built with paintings straight length and width variables, is well suited to the topography of the hill and contains a simple polygonal enclosure 2942 m2 which is accessed by two-income oriented north and south that are manned by towers flanking runs.
The north gate is protected by a structural element of passive defense, the titulum, made it unlikely that an artillery attack by setting up a distance of over 30 m.
This is a solid polyhedral structure that is split in two by a narrow corridor of income.
Ceramics contexts allow us to date the destruction of the Roman castle of Archivel in the range of second and third quarters of s.
Ia.
BC, perhaps in the final moments of the civil war in the Iberian Peninsula facing the supporters of Julius Caesar with the faction affects the children of Pompey the Great.
It would take back many years before returning to find in the s.
IX AD a new era fortress of the Emirate.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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