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Iberian Settlement of l'Esquerda

les Masies de Roda, Osona, Barcelona

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Iberian Settlement of l'Esquerda

Curiosity · les Masies de Roda, Osona, Barcelona

Archaeological site located in a 12-hectare meander formed by the river Ter, in les Masies de Roda (Osona), with intermittent occupation from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. The first settlements date from the 8th century BC; between the 5th and 4th centuries BC a large walled Iberian oppidum was built, with pottery and metalworking workshops; there followed a Visigothic occupation with fields of silos, watchtowers from the Carolingian period and, between the 10th and 14th centuries, an early medieval settlement with the Romanesque church of Sant Pere de Roda, consecrated in 1042, and a necropolis of anthropomorphic tombs cut into the rock. The materials found are displayed in the Museu Arqueològic de l'Esquerda, in Roda de Ter.

Photo: Enric (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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