They discover in Ibiza a 2,000 year old archaeological deposit of 2,000 with 72 ditches to cultivate plants
The excavations in the rock have rectangular shape, they are as large as and a tomb, but "this was not a necrópolis", affirms the responsible archaeologist.
The excavations are being carried out in the road to Sant Rafel to its encounter with the road of Santa Eulalia, showing a great archaeological site, consisting of 72 deposit excavated in the rock and that, in spite of their appearance of necrópolis, had the function of holes to grow crops in the Ibiza of 2,000 years ago.
The archaeologist Jonathan Castro, contracted by the Consell to make the archaeological pursuit of this excavation, informed to this newspaper that this deposit corresponds to the Roman altoimperial period, in the 1st century dC.
Castro added that it completely discarded the possibility of this beeing a series of tombs, "although when seeing it any one would think that it's a necrópolis. It's not, these are ditches to cultivate plants". The ditches have been found right next to the present highway, half kilometer from the race course of Sant Rafel. Part of these excavations was affected in its day by construction of the present road, that dates from the Sixties.
The deposits form several rows that run parallel to the highway, and in a total length of 110 meters, the disposition is NW-SE and each one of them has a length of 1.80 meters, by 30 or 40 centimeters wide and a depth of half a meter. Jonathan Castro added that the fact of not having found any bone restscorroborates the thesis that these were not tombs, "that have a diferent shape and other characteristics". This archaeologist indicated that this type of structures have been discovered previously in the island of Ibiza, but not with the abundance and extension of this case.
We asked on the opportunity to conserve this archaeological site, in spite of being affected by the layout of the new highway, he responded that "the important thing is to document it well, then the conservation is up to the Commission of Patrimony".
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The excavations are being carried out in the road to Sant Rafel to its encounter with the road of Santa Eulalia, showing a great archaeological site, consisting of 72 deposit excavated in the rock and that, in spite of their appearance of necrópolis, had the function of holes to grow crops in the Ibiza of 2,000 years ago.
The archaeologist Jonathan Castro, contracted by the Consell to make the archaeological pursuit of this excavation, informed to this newspaper that this deposit corresponds to the Roman altoimperial period, in the 1st century dC.
Castro added that it completely discarded the possibility of this beeing a series of tombs, "although when seeing it any one would think that it's a necrópolis. It's not, these are ditches to cultivate plants". The ditches have been found right next to the present highway, half kilometer from the race course of Sant Rafel. Part of these excavations was affected in its day by construction of the present road, that dates from the Sixties.
The deposits form several rows that run parallel to the highway, and in a total length of 110 meters, the disposition is NW-SE and each one of them has a length of 1.80 meters, by 30 or 40 centimeters wide and a depth of half a meter. Jonathan Castro added that the fact of not having found any bone restscorroborates the thesis that these were not tombs, "that have a diferent shape and other characteristics". This archaeologist indicated that this type of structures have been discovered previously in the island of Ibiza, but not with the abundance and extension of this case.
We asked on the opportunity to conserve this archaeological site, in spite of being affected by the layout of the new highway, he responded that "the important thing is to document it well, then the conservation is up to the Commission of Patrimony".
Find the spanish version of this news article in www.diariodeibiza.es
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