The
Menorca Heritage Recovery association today completed fieldwork in the central zone of the Torre d´en Galmés archaeological site. This
fifth field season was directed by the archaeologists Luis María Cobos Rodríguez, manager of the company ARQ Patrimonio, and Julia García González, professor of the University of Granada, together with their team made up of figures including the archaeologist Adrián Castro.
This year's efforts focused on the excavation of the quadrangular structure with an entrance to the south, where the team reached the bedrock, serving to clarify that the last occupancy of the space corresponds to a
relative chronology at the end of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, as demonstrated above all by the ceramic materials found. The interior reveals a space divided into two zones by a lengthwise wall, supported on the geological level itself. In the more eastern zone, which has not yet been fully surveyed, a circular structure has been documented, and will be defined in the next field season.
Meanwhile, this quadrangular habitation structure would seem to form part of a
larger complex of interconnected rooms: a structure tending towards a circular form, the flat arch gateway, the transit space, and an open section to the north which has still to be defined. Previous field seasons documented other Islamic rooms from the 10th to 13th centuries abutting this habitation complex, which made use of the Talayotic walls and form part of the Islamic occupation of the site.
Over the course of the coming months, the Heritage Recovery researchers will use these data to draw further information thanks to laboratory work and the study of the archaeological materials. In short, to conduct interpretation and then present their knowledge through heritage outreach.