{"id":55203,"date":"2021-07-26T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T07:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icac.cat\/en\/?p=55203"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T08:50:13","slug":"documentation-of-the-access-door-to-the-archaeological-site-of-coll-del-moro-in-gandesa-tarragona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/actualitat\/noticies\/2021\/documentation-of-the-access-door-to-the-archaeological-site-of-coll-del-moro-in-gandesa-tarragona\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentation of the access door to the archaeological site of Coll del Moro in Gandesa (Tarragona)"},"content":{"rendered":"

2021 archaeological excavation campaign at the Coll del Moro archaeological site<\/strong> (in Gandesa, Tarragona), which took place from June 21 to July 9, within the framework of the UB-GRACPE<\/a> and ICAC research project Formation, development, and dissolution of the Iberian culture in the lower course of the Ebro river (9th-1st century BC)<\/a>, has allowed completing the delimitation of the site on the northwest side<\/strong>, where it has been possible the documentation of an about 30 meters wall section, incorporating the tower already known in the defensive system.<\/p>\n

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It has been possible to document a section of the wall in about 30 meters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The project led by Rafel Jornet <\/a>(UB – M\u00f3n Iber ROCS), Maria Carme Belarte<\/a> (ICREA-ICAC), Jordi Morer<\/a> (M\u00f3n Iber ROCS), David\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Asensio<\/span><\/a> (UB – UAB – M\u00f3n Iber ROCS), and Joan Sanmart\u00ed<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>(UB) has documented also, the access door of the fortified settlement<\/strong>, which was built in Iberian times and reused in the Iberian-Roman phase of the settlement. Protected by the tower, the door is about 3 m wide, and opens onto a funnel-shaped passageway, narrowing inward. The wall was possibly reinforced by a ditch, where the current N-420B road passes.<\/p>\n

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View of the wall, in the archaeological site of Coll del Moro (Gandesa, Tarragona). Photo: UB-ICAC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In the Ibero-Roman period the door was modified, reducing its width.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The walls that delimit this passageway have a preserved height of about 4 m. The door is accessed from the outside through a stone-built ramp, uncovered in a 12 m long section, which spans a slope of the terrain of about 2 m; all this gives monumentality to the whole. In the Iberian-Roman period, the door was modified, reducing its width. This discovery allows us to know how to improve the character of the site at the time of the conquest, probably a castellum<\/em> or fortified square<\/strong>, similar to that of other sites known in Catalonia at the same time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding the archaeological materials recovered in this campaign, among the most outstanding finds highlights an Iberian inscription on a ceramic jar<\/strong>, in the entrance area. According to a preliminary study by the epigraphist Joan Ferrer i Jan\u00e9<\/a> (University of Barcelona), it would correspond to an anthroponym.<\/p>\n

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Among the most outstanding finds highlights an Iberian inscription on a ceramic jar, in the entrance area, which would correspond to an anthroponym. Photo: UB-ICAC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The research team of the\u00a0University of Barcelona<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology<\/a>\u00a0funded by the\u00a0Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya<\/strong>, the\u00a0Catalan Agency of Cultural Heritage,\u00a0<\/strong>and the City Council of\u00a0Gandesa<\/strong>, undertake archaeological works in the Coll del Moro site since 2014, and has carried out both geophysical and pedestrian prospecting in the habitat area and in the lowlands that extend to the south and east of the Coll del Moro territory.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Related information:<\/h6>\n

Jornet, R.; Belarte, M. C.; Sanmart\u00ed, J.; Asensio, D.; Morer, J.; Noguera, J. (2020): \u201cEl Coll del Moro (Gandesa, Tarragona) y su contexto territorial: formaci\u00f3n y desarrollo de un asentamiento urbano protohist\u00f3rico\u201d,\u00a0Trabajos de Prehistoria<\/em><\/a>\u00a077 (1), 199-215.<\/p>\n

Tribuna d\u2019Arqueologia 2018-2019<\/em>,\u00a0v\u00eddeo de la confer\u00e8ncia \u201cIntervencions al jaciment Ib\u00e8ric de Coll del Moro de Gandesa (Terra Alta) entre 2014 i 2018\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(abril de 2019).<\/p>\n

Jornet, R.;\u00a0Belarte, M. C.;\u00a0Sanmart\u00ed i Grego, J.;\u00a0Asensio, D.;\u00a0Morer de Llorens, J. (2016):\u00a0\u201cNoves excavacions al nucli fortificat del Coll del Moro de Gandesa (2014-2015)\u201d<\/a>,\u00a0Actes de les I Jornades d\u2019Arqueologia de les Terres de l\u2019Ebre<\/em>\u00a0(Tortosa, del 6 al 7 de maig de 2016), p. 345-358.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2021 archaeological excavation campaign at the Coll del Moro archaeological site (in Gandesa, Tarragona), which took place from June 21 to July 9, within the framework of the UB-GRACPE and ICAC research project Formation, development, and dissolution of the Iberian culture in the lower course of the Ebro river (9th-1st century BC), has allowed completing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":55190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[328,342,334,333],"tags":[466,772,771,467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55208,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55203\/revisions\/55208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}