CASTRO DE BARONA

[Judi Lynn]

CASTRO DE BAROÑA IS A FORTIFIED IRON AGE SETTLEMENT, LOCATED ON A ROCKY OUTCROP ON THE COASTLINE OF A CORUÑA IN GALICIA, SPAIN.

The settlement was constructed during the 1st century BC by the Castro culture (cultura castreña in Spanish, meaning “culture of the hill-forts”), that are described for their material culture within the North Western regions of the Iberian Peninsula and their walled oppida and hill forts, known locally as castros.

During this period, the region was inhabited by the Praestamarcos tribe, first mentioned in later texts by the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela and by Pliny the Elder in the 1st century AD.

Castro de Baroña was built on a small peninsula projecting out in to the sea (the “Punta do Castro”) that is only accessible via a small narrow beach connected to the Galician mainland. The site is protected on approach by an outer moat four metres wide by three metres deep, followed by a series of parallel stone walls filled with sand and stone.



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More:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/12/castro-de-barona/142281

[secondwind]

1. Thanks for this, I found it interesting.