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Archaeological site of Els Germanells

Rafelbunyol, L'Horta Nord, Valencia

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Archaeological site of Els Germanells

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The Els Germanells site, in Rafelbunyol, belongs to the Valencian Bronze Age culture, with a chronology around 1800 BC. It occupies two mounds 43 metres long and 18 metres wide, about 4 kilometres from the village, in a strategic position with a broad visual command of the terrain. Discovered in 1953, it has yielded sickle teeth, thousands of black stone discoidal beads, pottery, two knives, a flat axe, four arrowheads, a square dissection awl, a brush and bone awls; part of the finds are kept at MUPREVA, the Museum of Prehistory of Valencia. Nearby, at Blanc de Columbro, a Roman rustic villa was documented, with fragments of dolia and a capital carved in stone from Sagunto, whose location is unknown today.

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