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Almadenes Hill

Otero de Herreros, Alfoz de Segovia, Segovia

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Almadenes Hill

Monument · Otero de Herreros, Alfoz de Segovia, Segovia

A Roman archaeological site located in Otero de Herreros (Segovia), at the foot of the Sierra del Quintanar, in the Presierra de Guadarrama, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) by the Junta de Castilla y León on 9 June 2022, following excavations that a team from the Sociedad Española de Historia de la Arqueología has been carrying out since 2009. The site preserves the locations of smelting furnaces, wells, a main trench and a drainage gallery: the infrastructure of a Roman copper- and silver-mining operation that gave its name to the neighbouring settlement of Ferreros. The hill sits on a granite dome with copper outcrops, between the streams of la Escoria and el Quejigal, where mine entrances, spoil heaps and channels from the old mining water infrastructure can still be seen.

Photo: Arturo Francisco Barbero (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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