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Castros (Spain)

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enclosure, the "croa" and a series of terraces laid down where are the buildings. Each of these sections may be limited by walls, parapets or pits. Sometimes there is a kind of additions, the antecastros, which is also surrounded by walls but do not harbor houses, so it is assumed that these were intended for animals or orchards.
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The maximum flowering time was between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC and show greater business contact with the outside of the south than the north, and the coastal than the inland. Some historians argue that in the first mid-1st century BC there was a multiplication of castros (either for population
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The Castro villages tend to be constructed in cleared hills, rocky headlands or peninsulas that stretch into the sea, which provides visibility, defense and the contour domain. The place of settlement is given also in terms of natural resources exploited by the residents. The castros have an upper
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The most common is the absence of urban organization. In the 1st century appear clusters of buildings ("neighborhoods"), consisting of several buildings surrounded by a wall with one opening facing the street. This arrangement is common in large towns, and in more modest towns like
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The castros tend to have a single entrance, which also serves to prevent passage. In some cases is a simple thickening of the tops of the walls, in others, a panel of the wall surpasses the other, forming a narrow corridor. It is assumed that they closed with wooden doors.
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Located in high mountainous areas, are located on the slopes and are oval, with artificial pits on the upper side and walls or embankments into the valley. Dating back to Roman times and are linked to mining. Two examples include Vilar in the
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defenses of varied types, such as two parallel walls of stone with stone fill. From the inside up to them by wooden stairs, recessed slabs, ramps or rocks. There may be defensive towers at the accesses to the doors. These are later
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It is suspected that some large buildings, where a stone bench runs along the wall and in which are not remains of room, could have been room enclosures. It has also ceramic and pottery kilns, usually next to the exits or outside.
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In times of conflict, the people who lived in open field moved to these strategically located buildings to ensure their safety. The buildings could also have other purposes such as control of territory, vigilance of crops, etc.
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The defenses of the castros do not seem to meet war needs, but of prestige and symbolic boundaries of the inhabited space. In fact, few weapons were found. In addition to natural defenses, there are structures of three types:
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These are the most common and characteristic. These are located on hills or prominent elevations, but rarely in high summits. They are circular or oval and have one or more walls. An example is the castro of
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Are of varied plant, but usually round or oval, adapting to the terrain. The natural defenses of the sea are complemented by walls and moats into the inland. These are very abundant and an example are the
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Its situation on the territory compared to other castros suggests that there was a definite strategy when choosing its location, allowing the communication by signals between them as a defensive network.
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Official website of the Castro of Chao Samartín and its Museum. A look at the Castro culture in western Asturias and archaeological research in motion
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was made of branches and mud and after long poles. Basically, they were unique rooms. These are located in naturally protected areas (heights, riots
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that began to be inhabited from the 6th century BC, lacking streets of right angles and full of construction almost always circular. The oldest
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Castros and castra in Cantabria. Fortifications from the beginning of the Iron Age to the wars with Rome. Catalog, review and update
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The floor of the houses was of mud trod. Prior to the 2nd-3rd century BC, the walls were usually built of
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Veton territory. Necropolis of La Osera, Castro of la Mesa de Miranda, Chamartin de la Sierra (Ávila)
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growth or for other reasons). At the end of the century, coinciding with the final phase of the
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that bordered the inhabited precinct, which may have in its accesses a
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The castros were protected by one or more pits, parapets and
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Ruins of the houses of the Castro of Coaña, next to
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Index

Castros in Spain
Castro culture

Coaña
Asturias

Castro of Fazouro
Foz
Galicia

Castro of Santa Tegra
Mount of Santa Tegra
A Guarda
Galicia
pre-Roman
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Celtic
Spain
Castro culture
Las Cogotas
Latin
castrum
hill fort
Castro culture
village
houses
straw
mud
roof

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