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Hillfort of Magros

Beariz, Carballiño, Ourense

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Hillfort of Magros

Nature · Beariz, Carballiño, Ourense

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Iron Age settlement where pottery and hand mills were recovered; the municipality also preserves more than a dozen mámoas and a stretch of Roman road with a bridge over the river Verdugo. The castro is located at 728 metres above sea level, on the foothills of Monte Marcofán, less than a kilometre from the settlement of Magros, in the parish of Santa María de Beariz. It was walled, though today scarcely any standing remains survive beyond a mound that may have served as a parapet and traces of what is interpreted as a defensive tower. Fragments of castro-period and Gallaecian-Roman pottery found on the surface are kept at the Municipal Library, and the site has an access path laid out for visitors.

Photo: Adrián Estévez (Estevoaei) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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