The Menorca Heritage Recovery Association completed its field work in the central area of the Torre d'en Galmés site in September. This fourth campaign has been directed by archaeologists Luis Mª Cobos Rodríguez, manager of the company ARQ Patrimonio, and Julia García González, professor at the University of Granada, together with their team formed by archaeologists Ismael Moll and Adrián Castro, among others.
For this campaign, several volunteers from the island and students from the University of Malaga, the University of Granada, the University of Murcia and the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid have joined the team, all with different backgrounds in fields such as Archeology, History and Tourism. That’s why this year the students attended conferences and visited some important sites such as Naveta des Tudons or Son Catlar, in addition to carrying out archaeological excavations and laboratory tasks.
This intervention has served to better understand the historical evolution of the site’s central area, by investigating the evolution of its constructions and the relationship between them. As it is an open air excavation, widening the breadth of the surface to be excavated has been the goal in order to document all the archaeological structures existing in the predetermined space. It has thus been possible to document an Islamic chamber associated with the one found in the previous campaign which communicated with it through a transit space. The central space has been also excavated, allowing for the definition of compartmentalisation structures in the interior space.
This campaign has been carried out thanks to the financial support of the Consell Insular de Menorca and the Alaior City Council, institutions that have made these interventions possible since 2017.