page_title: El Castillon
section_title: Archaeological fieldworks
hierarchical_section_title: El Castillon / Archaeological fieldworks
caption_attribution_description: Español: Excavación en el Castillón (2013)
context_page_description: El Castillón, is an archaeological site located in the Spanish hamlet of Santa Eulalia de Tábara, in the municipality of Moreruela de Tábara, province of Zamora, region of Castile and León on the Spanish mainland.
  The site covers an area of about 4 Hs and it situated over a plateau at the top of a hill located on the right riverside of the River Esla. The site has been inhabited since the Iron Age, but the most known period of the site belongs to the Late Roman Era as a large number of late Hispano-Roman red gloss pottery testifies. Early Modern period is clearly represented by pieces of grey and printed pottery type DSP. Hand made pottery is in a few number and it has been unearthed in limited areas and secondary depots, In spite of it, it clearly belongs to the 1st Iron Age.
  The site is enclosed by a U-shaped wall surrounding the settlement but the east where an abrupt cliffs falls to the river.
context_section_description: Excavations started in 2007, within the frame context of the PIDPAPZ project (Project on the Investigation and diffusion of the Late Prehistory Archaeological Heritage of the Province of Zamora). The scientific team was led by the archaeologists Jose Carlos Sastre Blanco and Oscar Rodriguez Monterrubio, just since the beginning the archaeologist Patricia Fuentes Melgar (Asociación Científico - Cultural ZamoraProtohistórica) joint the leading team and years later when the Association for the Scientific and Cultural Promotion of the Heritage of Zamora was created the  supervising group was completed by Manuel Vazquez Fadon.
  Excavations have been carried out since 2007 to date with a gap year in 2015. In these eight campaigns three areas have been studied: Defensive systems,  the metalworking district and the big storehouse.
caption: Excavación en el Castillón (2013)
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