Castro de la Mesa de Miranda - In Search of the Celts on Waymarking.com

[ES] El castro ocupa una superficie aproximada de 30 ha en la zona conocida como la Mesa de Miranda. Consta de tres recintos, defendido por una muralla de 2.832 m de longitud y unos 5 m de anchura media, construida a base de grandes bloques de piedra. la necrópolis data del siglo III a.C. hasta entrado el siglo III, hasta entonces hubo enterramientos. La muralla hubo de construirse a finales del siglo III a.C. o principios del siglo IV a.C.

[EN] The castro occupies a surface area of approximately 30 hectars. It is protected by a wall 2832 m long and on average 5 meters wide, constructed from large blocks of stone. The burial ground dates from the 3rd century B.C. and was used up until the beginning of the 3rd century A.D. The wall must have been constructed at the end of the 3rd century B.C. or beginning of the 4th century B.C.

The Vettones were one of the pre-Roman Celtic peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, modern Spain and Portugal), dwelling in the northwestern part of the meseta—the high central upland plain of the Iberian peninsula—the region where the modern Spanish provinces of Ávila and Salamanca are today, as well as parts of Zamora, Toledo, Cáceres and also border areas of modern Portuguese territory. Roman authors recognized the cohesion of cultural features and called the tribe the Vettones. Some of their most notable legacies today include verracos de piedra, which are stone markers of unknown use, and possibly the game of Calva, which dates to the time of their influence.

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