null Excavation history - Castro Alobre

Castro Alobre

Fishing in the Iron Age

_Historia de las excavaciones

Last third of the 19th century

Primeras noticias relatadas por Manuel Murguía sobre la existencia de dos concheros ubicados al este y oeste del yacimiento.

1905

Discovery of the Late Roman era necropolis, with 20 slab or tegulae-covered graves.

1920

Finding of architectural remains belonging to a Roman salting factory.

2001

First excavations with archaeological methodology, funded by the Xunta de Galicia.

2002

Four explorations carried out, documenting an oval-shaped structure and numerous archaeological materials.

2004

New excavations carried out in an area adjacent to the one excavated the previous year, documenting a new oval-shaped, dwelling-type structure, including a furnace chamber.