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This suggests that the Camino follows a very, very old route.
I would have given you a whole-hearted "like" if you hadn't mentioned a "Celtic roads network" in your post.it's the old Roman road -- which the Visigoths would have used too !!
Yes, there isn't any Celtic alphabet. That means small trade and therefore a Celtic roads network before the Romans is unlikely.I would have given you a whole-hearted "like" if you hadn't mentioned a "Celtic roads network" in your post.
And thanks, @Felipe, for posting about these interesting news.
Do you have any idea what will happen with the site near Grañon? Will it be protected as an archaeological site or will it eventually disappear under roadworks?a Celtic roads network before the Romans is unlikely
Sorry, I didn't know anything about the Grañon site.Do you have any idea what will happen with the site near Grañon? Will it be protected as an archaeological site or will it eventually disappear under roadworks?
I can definitely say: "Same here"! I put necropolis visigoda into Google and was surprised that there are such sites in Spain that can be visited. I'll try to post the link: More images for necropolis. I had no idea.I am learning on this Forum about the Visigoths many things that I didn't know
I was astonished when doing a virtual Viejo/Olvidado how many such places there are.I put necropolis visigoda into Google and was surprised that there are such sites in Spain that can be visited. I'll try to post the link: More images for necropolis. I had no idea.
In theory after Leovigildo and Recaredo the cemeteries admitted also Hispanos. That can explain the big number of graves.I can definitely say: "Same here"! I put necropolis visigoda into Google and was surprised that there are such sites in Spain that can be visited. I'll try to post the link: More images for necropolis. I had no idea.
I would have given you a whole-hearted "like" if you hadn't mentioned a "Celtic roads network" in your post.
Yes and the Celtiberians used the Iberian alphabet, but as far as I know there isn't any Celtic alphabet.And "the Celts" (or rather, at least some of them) did sometimes use writing ; how frequently or not is an unknown, as very little of it has survived.
It is thought that 100.000 Visigoths entered Hispania men, women and children. So, it was a long journey for so many people.I know really very little about the Visigoths and the paths their troops took. I am taking the EN Wikipedia by their word and it seems that the Visigoths came from somewhere east and then trundled along the Mediterranean coasts, sacking Rome on the way I think, then having a bit of a kingdom in the South of France for a while before settling in Hispania for good, so not exactly following a classic Camino de Santiago road, whether pre-Roman or not. ☺
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I would not elaborate this, buy my guess is that the archaeologist in charge have mounted a media savvy campaign to get funds for the study of the necropolis and the establishment of a museum. Generally speaking, Spain governments are very receptive to the conservation of historic patrimony, but current times, as you can imagine, are tough. The site could be declared (or not) a Bien de Interés Cultural; if this is the case, the implications for the construction of the adjacent highway will be quite significative (I guess part of the necropolis is actually below the current motorway...) As a minimun, the site will be thoroughly researched, the remains catalogued and preservated (ancient bones are fragile) and translated to a safe place. We will see just a sign with a brief explanation or, hopefully, a museum in Grañón. That remains to be seen...Do you have any idea what will happen with the site near Grañon? Will it be protected as an archaeological site or will it eventually disappear under roadworks?
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Do you have any idea what will happen with the site near Grañon? Will it be protected as an archaeological site or will it eventually disappear under roadworks?
Well, the mayor of Grañón says that some four years ago eight tombs were discovered there, and I have no reason to doubt his word, the leader of the archeology team says that they did exploration probes in 2013 and knew about it since then, plus there's a history/archaeology publication on academia.edu, published in 2016, about this earlier discovery with photos.The google maps images are from 2018 and show the soil quite undisturbed.
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