The intervention at this point reveals the presence of one of the main entrances to the settlement in its last phase. The suspicion that it was here was based on the fact that a path to the top of the hill from the east converges here with the main street in the area, which runs north-south.

The work located two sections of wall at this point, separated by a certain difference in height between them, at the ends of which there could have been the gate. It wasn’t possible to confirm this as they have been largely flattened. Even so, this idea is backed up by the presence inside the settlement of a wall parallel to the city wall that forms an entrance passage leading to a second gate, which was found to be sealed.

The structures preserved inside the settlement are totally unknown as the area was found covered by a thick layer of stones whose purpose could not be explained. The dating of the various associated articulated animal remains gave a date for it during the last occupation phase.

As a hypothesis, it was suggested that the layer of stones could have something to do with reinforcing the area or sealing it off in the settlement’s final moments, but we shall have to wait for future campaigns to be able to corroborate this.

Fill level from the Late Roman Republican Period

Decembre 2014.

Western part of the trench

Structures dated from the Late Roman Republican Period can be observed. Decembre 2014.

Part of the cranium and a bovid articulated limb

Decembre 2014.

Sloping section of wall

Part of the wall and its ruins can be seen towards the slope. The wall running parallel to the city wall can be seen on the left, forming an entrance passageway. Decembre 2014.

Section of city wall (north-east stretch)

Decembre 2014

[left]. Photogrammetric study at the end of the 2014 season. [right] Location of various excavated structures

At bottom left and top right, stretch of Late Republican city wall