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Hillfort of a Croa

Ponteareas, Condado, Pontevedra

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Hillfort of a Croa

Nature · Ponteareas, Condado, Pontevedra

Image of Ponteareas, not of the place itself.

A fortified Iron Age enclosure located next to the río Tea, in the parish of Ribadetea (Ponteareas), about which it has been debated whether it was a settlement or a gold-mining operation, given its proximity to the mina da Croa. Notable are the numerous parapets and ditches that surround it, affected in 2013 by sand-extraction works that ended in a fine for the town council. It shares its concello with Troña, one of the main hillfort sites in Galicia.

Photo: Cossue (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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