Roman Quarries in the Northeast of Hispania (Modern Catalonia)

GUTIÉRREZ GARCIA-MORENO, ANNA

doi:10.51417/documenta_10

2009

DOI: 10.51417/documenta_10

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Roman Quarries in the Northeast of Hispania (Modern Catalonia)

ANNA GUTIÉRREZ GARCIA-MORENO

Abstract: És l’estudi de les principals pedreres de Catalunya, analitzant, per una banda, la localització geogràfica, la contextualització en el territori antic, el treball a la pedrera amb detecció de traces d’eina i el càlcul de volumetria i, per una altra, la datació de material petri en època romana a través de l’estudi dels casos més significatius, com Tarraco, Dertosa o Barcino.

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Isla del Fraile. Reconstructing Coastal Dynamics in Southeastern Spain Through Underwater Archaeological Survey

Quevedo,

Aragón,

de Dios Hernández García

et al. 2024

Archaeological Prospection

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A new archaeological research project analyses the history of Isla del Fraile (Águilas, Spain), a small island off the coast occupied since at least Roman times. Its isolation means that the sea has always conditioned its connectivity and relationship with land. Despite some underwater studies carried out in previous decades, its underwater surroundings, El Hornillo Bay, continue to be relatively unexplored. In parallel to the excavation work on the island's surface, an underwater survey was carried out in the area, which is known for its archaeological wealth. The objectives of this paper are to study the underwater contexts associated with the archaeological site, to determine whether there were any ports or anchorages and to analyse the phases of greatest activity in the bay between Antiquity and the Modern Age. New data are provided, and earlier finds, either previously unpublished or from private donations, are also reviewed. The findings are discussed and related to their local and interregional contexts. The main purpose is to offer a new contribution to the study of the maritime cultural landscape of the Western Mediterranean through a region underrepresented by research.

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Isla del Fraile. Reconstructing Coastal Dynamics in Southeastern Spain Through Underwater Archaeological Survey

Quevedo,

Aragón,

de Dios Hernández García

et al. 2024

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Geoarchaeology of Roman Underground Quarries at Ksour Essaf (Tunisia)

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Gallala

Younès³

2014

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A quarry for the construction of a Roman camp next to the Celtiberian city of Deza during the Sertorian Wars (Soria, Spain)

Pérez

Alcalde²,

Álvarez³

et al. 2023

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Through an interdisciplinary investigation, a hastily exploited individual quarry of limestone is studied. The quarry was made all at once for the construction of a nearby military camp to improve the defence of a remarkable Celtiberian city during the Sertorian Wars. This is a perfect Roman military engineering project: on the one hand, the geological deposit was exploited selectively, differentiating the areas of extraction of large and small blocks of stone, according to the needs of the work. On the other hand, the material was transported by means of small roads along a carefully studied and laid out road of about 600 m in length and of clear Roman origin. The archaeological evidence shows the existence of a large camp that, according to previous surveys, adopts the known classical models of rectangular plans and the typology of Roman construction. In the camp environment, there are enough scattered remains that seem to point to a battlefield. All this indicates the importance of the primitive Celtiberian settlement, which is justified by an analysis of the territory by the existence of springs of high guarantee for human water supply, livestock and irrigation. The existence of silver mines is another added economic value. Due to the predominance in the monetary findings of the mint of Titiakos, the possibility is raised that the Celtiberian city was linked to the ethnic group of the Titos indicating their active participation during the Sertorian Wars.

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Roman Quarries in the Northeast of Hispania (Modern Catalonia)

Cited by 16 publications

References 65 publications

Isla del Fraile. Reconstructing Coastal Dynamics in Southeastern Spain Through Underwater Archaeological Survey

Isla del Fraile. Reconstructing Coastal Dynamics in Southeastern Spain Through Underwater Archaeological Survey

Geoarchaeology of Roman Underground Quarries at Ksour Essaf (Tunisia)

A quarry for the construction of a Roman camp next to the Celtiberian city of Deza during the Sertorian Wars (Soria, Spain)

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