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Iberian site of San Antonio de Calaceite

Calaceite, Matarraña, Teruel

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Iberian site of San Antonio de Calaceite

Nature · Calaceite, Matarraña, Teruel

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The Iberian settlement of San Antonio is an archaeological site located on the southern summit of the San Cristóbal hill, one kilometre from Calaceite, in the Matarraña area of Teruel. It was excavated between 1903 and 1919 by the Calaceite-born archaeologist Juan Cabré and Pedro Bosch Gimpera, and much of the recovered material is now kept at the Archaeological Museum of Barcelona. Fully excavated, it shows two occupation phases: an earlier one, from the 5th-4th centuries BC, on the upper part of the hill, and a second, from the 3rd century BC, which extended the core down the slope with terracing, a wall and towers, until its end with the Roman conquest. The dwellings, rectangular and up to two storeys high, are lined up along paved streets; near the main entrance, to the north, there was a pool for collecting rainwater.

Photo: V. Ripoll Hernández (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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