{"id":1300,"date":"2017-10-23T14:36:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2017-10-23T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T14:13:45","slug":"catro-novos-campamentos-romanos-localizados-en-galicia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/2017\/10\/23\/catro-novos-campamentos-romanos-localizados-en-galicia\/","title":{"rendered":"Four new Roman military camps located in Galicia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new volume of the scientific Journal Gallaecia. Revista de arqueolox\u00eda e antig\u00fcidade<\/em><\/a>, edited by the History Department of the\u00a0Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, has been released. It contains a paper in which four new Roman military sites located within the provinces Lugo and Ourense have been published. These sites reveal an active Roman military presence in the area and could help to understand the historical processes of conquest and absorption of these territories by the Roman empire. From the discovery of the site of A Recacha (Navia de Suarna)<\/a>\u00a0in 2011 onwards, up to 17 new Roman military sites have been detected -totally or partially- in Galicia, although some have not been publicly released yet. We must stress that the early Roman empire forts of A Cidadela (Sobrado dos Monxes, A Coru\u00f1a) and Bande (Ourense) are also situated in Galicia.<\/p>\n

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The Roman camp of Penedo dos Lobos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The paper, named \u201cHallazgos arqueol\u00f3gicos recientes para el estudio de la presencia militar romana en el oriente gallego\u201d, is signed by various members of the romanarmy.eu collective (Jos\u00e9 Manuel Costa-Garc\u00eda, Jo\u00e3o Fonte, Manuel Gago Mari\u00f1o, Andr\u00e9s Men\u00e9ndez Blanco e Valent\u00edn \u00c1lvarez Mart\u00ednez), and it describes\u00a0the following military enclosures:<\/p>\n

A Penaparda<\/strong>\u00a0(A Fonsagrada, Lugo \u2013 Santalla d\u2019Ozcos, Asturias). This 10ha camp was excavated some weeks ago by the romanarmy.eu collective<\/a>. The archaeological campaing was promoted by A Fonsagrada town council and financed by the Lugo Provincial Government. The archaeologists were able to document how the camp was built by the roman soldiers: an earth and stone rampart was created using the material from the excavation of a external trench.<\/p>\n

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A Penaparda Roman camp. LiDAR Visualisation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monte de Vent\u00edn<\/strong>\u00a0(Pol, Lugo). This is an irregular playing-card enclosure, located within the limits of the Santiago de Vent\u00edn parish and quite close to the hillfort of Viladonga. \u00a0This is one of the most extensive camps in NW Iberia: with its 13,55 ha, its garrison could have reached between 6.600 and 8.600 soldiers.<\/p>\n

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O Monte de Vent\u00edn. LiDAR Visualisation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Penedo dos Lobos<\/strong>\u00a0(Manzaneda, Ourense). This enclosure is located over a hill 1450 m above sea level, close to the modern-day sky resort of Manzaneda. Its 2,4 ha could have garrisoned up to 1500 men. This camp shows a unique stone rampart in which four fortified gates (claviculae) are perfectly recognisable. It is probably one of the best preserved Roman military temporary sites in Iberia.<\/p>\n

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The enclosure of Penedo dos Lobos. Aerial photograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cabeza do Pau<\/strong>\u00a0(Pet\u00edn, Ourense). This enclosure is located between the parishes of Mones and Santoalla do Monte, 1200 m above sea level, so the visual control of the surrounding are is almost complete. This site also shows a stone rampart which surrouds the\u00a0mount summit.\u00a0\u00a0The rampart delimits a 11 ha space, but the total area used for camping could have been of less extent.<\/p>\n

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Cabeza de Pau. LiDAR Visualisation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The four new Roman military camps reveal the extensi\u00f3n of the military operations and the ubiquity of the Roman army across the Galician territory. Unfortunately, it is not possible yet to determine the provenance, destiny or mission of these military units when they settled these camps. Up to date, it has been impossible to archaeologically document war scenarios or acts of physical violence against the ancient Galicians, although this kind of evidence is not easy to record by these means,as the research in other European Atlantic contexts has showed.<\/p>\n

You can download the paper\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historias","category-publicaciones","category-sitios","no-post-thumbnail","has-read-more-tag","no-sticky","entry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["es","gl","as","pt","en"],"languages":{"es":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"gl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"as":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"pt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanarmy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}