{"id":78075,"date":"2022-05-17T08:54:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/?p=78075"},"modified":"2022-05-18T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:47:06","slug":"colldemulleres2022giap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/actualitat\/noticies\/2022\/colldemulleres2022giap\/","title":{"rendered":"GIAP plans new archaeological works at Coll de Molleres (eastern Pyrenees), the highest Roman site discovered so far in Catalonia (2,500 m)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ICAC archaeological surveys in the area (carried out since 2018) raised the possibility of a military settlement at an altitude of 2,500 m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Meranges City Council and the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) have reached an agreement to reactivate this summer the archaeological works at Coll de Molleres site (Cerdanya)<\/strong>, the highest Roman site discovered so far in Catalonia, at 2,500 metres above sea level. The project thus enters a second stage, after the first surveys within a wider investigation in which the municipalities of Guils and Lles, in La Cerdanya, were also involved.<\/p>\n

\u21d2 Journalist Miquel Spa<\/a> reports on this project in Regi\u00f37 news<\/a> (May 16, 2022).<\/p>\n

The archaeological works carried out by the GIAP<\/strong><\/a> research group (ICAC) focus on the study of human occupation, from the Neolithic period onwards but especially the Roman period, around and above an altitude of 2,000 m. The Roman site at Coll de Molleres would unseat another site in the Vansa and F\u00f3rnols valley (Cad\u00ed mountain range), at an altitude of 2,000 m, as the highest in the country.<\/p>\n

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At this site located in an area known as Goler\u00f3, GIAP archaeologists found evidence of military metallurgical exploitation from the Roman period<\/strong> that has been stated as very important by the ICAC.<\/p>\n

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ICAC director, Josep Maria Palet<\/a>, explained that “this site in Coll de Molleres has surpassed that of El Goler\u00f3 because we are working in a site which probably dates from a similar chronology as the Roman city of Iulia Libica<\/em> in Ll\u00edvia, but which is at 2,500 m and is, therefore, the highest in Catalonia”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Palet<\/a> also pointed out that, in the same way as the Vansa site, the Meranges site may also have been a strategic control point for the passage of troops through the Pyrenees<\/strong>: “It was probably a small military settlement with a quadrangular structure”, and he announced that “this summer we will begin to excavate it extensively”.<\/p>\n

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Four years of GIAP archaeological works in the Pyrenees<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thus, the Meranges City Council and the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC), through the GIAP group, will now activate a four-year archaeological excavations project<\/strong> that will leave behind the different survey tasks carried out since 2018. Coll de Molleres site is located on land owned by the City Council, which has expressed its willingness to promote the archaeological investigations.<\/p>\n

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The archaeological works will be directed by GIAP researchers Dra. L\u00eddia Colominas<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Ram\u00f3n y Cajal researcher), Arnau Carbonell<\/a> (PhD researcher), and Dr. Josep Maria Palet<\/a> (co-director of GIAP and ICAC director).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Archaeological works at Coll de Molleres site, 2019. Photo: ICAC (GIAP).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00abMeranges excavar\u00e0 un jaciment rom\u00e0 que ser\u00e0 el m\u00e9s alt del pa\u00eds\u00bb<\/a>, Regi\u00f37<\/em>, 16 de mayo de 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00abNew archaeological works in the prehistoric cave 338 in the Pyrenees\u00bb<\/a>, ICAC, September 2, 2021.<\/p>\n

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\u00abOn-going archaeological works in Bac de Puigpedr\u00f3s (Pyrenees) provides early signs of pre-Roman presence in the site\u00bb<\/a>, ICAC, July 27, 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u00abRomans in the Pyrenees, at 2,500 m? Summer excavation works in Meranges give us new evidence\u00bb<\/a>, ICAC, September 4, 2019.<\/div>\n
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ICAC archaeological surveys in the area (carried out since 2018) raised the possibility of a military settlement at an altitude of 2,500 m. Meranges City Council and the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) have reached an agreement to reactivate this summer the archaeological works at Coll de Molleres site (Cerdanya), the highest Roman site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":78052,"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":[328,342,334,336,333],"tags":[839,934,781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78075"}],"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=78075"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78083,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78075\/revisions\/78083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}