The Ritual Pottery Deposit of Roza Das Aveas (Outeiro de Rei, Lugo)
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 06/11/2018

Mediaeval pottery is a topic that has begun to be investigated in Galicia. Apart from vessels documented in settlements or burials, collections of pottery are now being found in other contexts that are more difficult to interpret. One of the examples that has been recently documented has led us to consider the re-use of prehistoric sites as a spatial landmark. We present a series of mediaeval vessels that were deposited on the edge of a megalithic barrow, verifying by means of a formal and contextual description, as well as by analysing the mineralogy and elemental composition of the clays, that this is a ritual deposit, in which an element from the past –the burial mound– may still have been important, as also revealed by the abundant folklore associated with tumuli in Galicia.

Author: Prieto Martínez, Pilar - University of Santiago de Compostela (Presenting author)
Co-Author: Alonso Toucido, Francisco - University of Santiago de Compostela; Estela Arqueoloxia e Patrimonio; Lantes Suarez, Oscar - University of Santiago de Compostela;
Vazquez Liz, Pablo - Professional archeologist