Costa de la Serra archaeological site is in the municipality of La Secuita<\/a>, about 13 km north of the city of Tarragona. It is a small late-Republican Roman fort, dating from the end of the 2nd century BC and the beginning of the 1st century BC. Since 2014, the ICAC has carried out archaeological interventions there, which have revealed the existence of a military settlement that was intentionally destroyed at the time of its abandonment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The main purpose of this 2023 campaign is to delimit a large depression located in the highest area of \u200b\u200bthe archaeological site<\/strong> and whose functionality is unknown. In previous campaigns, the south-eastern sector of the late-republican fortification was covered and the southern fa\u00e7ade of the fortification was defined with the layout of two sections of wall (approximately 50 m long).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Archaeologists work with different hypotheses and expect to be able to determine the relationship between the uses of this element with the rest of the structures identified on the site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n On the other hand, the stratigraphy continues to provide a rich material context, both at the level of ceramic materials and other elements (fragments of construction elements such as pavements, cladding, and ceilings) that will allow researchers to better understand the role of the architecture in the place. In this sense, one of the first findings of the campaign has been<\/strong> the identification of a combustion structure <\/strong>with a lining (possibly an oven).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Research at Costa de la Sierra site (La Secuita, Tarragona) is part of a four-year project (Catalan Government call) on Western Cesetania in the first millennium BC (CLT009\/22\/00012)<\/a>, led by Maria Carme Belarte<\/a> (ICREA-ICAC) and Joan Canela<\/a>, and which is the continuation of a previous project on the same topic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The archaeological works on the field at the Costa de la Sierra site began in 2015 and, since then, there have been archaeological works on a yearly basis, with different work teams on each occasion. With funding support from the City Council of La Secuita and the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The archaeological site was located thanks to the participation of Marc Dalmau, a neighbour of Argilaga (La Secuita) and former student of the ICAC’s former master in Classical Archeology (URV-UAB-ICAC), who was involved as a volunteer in one of the ICAC’s archaeological campaigns.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Funded by:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Catalan Institute of Classical Archeology (ICAC)<\/a> is a CERCA centre<\/strong> created as a consortium in 2003 by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Rovira i Virgili University. It is based in Tarragona, a city recognized as World Heritage by UNESCO in 2000 and is specialized in research and advanced training in Classical Archaeology. #SomCERCA!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n More info at www.icac.cat<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/icac.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ICAC_Costa-de-la-Serra-2023_vista-general-jaciment-1024x576.jpg\")
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