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Conjunto Ethno-Arqueológico del Cerro de la Viña(Higueruelas)

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To access the archaeological site of Cerro de la Viña is necessary to follow the hiking trail "La Viga del Horcajo" PR-CV-367.

About 300 meters before the site we find the ruins of the Corral Blanco, a corral with a typical structure of the region, uncovered area and covered with arches, with dimensions of 16 x 16 meters. It is built with masonry and wall, gabled roof with local wood, reed and tile. It dates from the 19th century.

The archaeological site of Los Alfares Romanos de El Cerro de La Viña is the second most important vestige of the Roman period in La Serranía, after the incomparable aqueduct of Peña Cortada de Calles. Two Roman kilns of ceramic production from the 1st century A.D. have been preserved with related construction elements, and part of the structures of the artisan area have also been located: the drying rooms for the pieces, the dump pits, the warehouses-workshops and the slave quarters.

Roman habitat area

In the middle of the first century A.D., in the time of the Roman emperor Claudius, a pottery center was located in this area. In order to obtain ceramic building materials such as tiles and bricks, and in order to supply the Roman villas in the area and the Roman villa that owned the pottery, located about 500 meters further north. Ceramic utensils for daily use were also manufactured, but no longer for export but for the use of the workers and lords of the villa.

Outside the building, but very close to it, the remains of a pit excavated in the geological rock were found, to be filled with waste. It is here where the inhabitants of the first century A.D., who remained in Cerro La Viña until the beginning of the second century A.D., threw their garbage, both organic and inorganic. This practice left remains of ceramics, for them already useless, because they were broken and for us valuable pieces because they explain their activities, offer us a chronology, allow us to associate them to a culture and for their aesthetic value. Thus in this pit we found fragments of bowls, jars, loom weights, mortars, pots, vases, pots.

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