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Archaeologists were hoping to find the first hermitage built in Cacela Velha, Algarve after the Christian conquest, but the remains on the site belonged to the medieval Christian necropolis and the Islamic precinct that preceded it, according to a researcher . Garcia, of the Algarve Regional Directorate of Culture (DRCAlg), spoke with the Lusa agency about the excavation campaign concluded this week to explain that the work continued the excavations of 1998 and 2001, in which traces of but the results were different and the existing walls were after all part of the Islamic district abandoned by the Arabs before the Christian conquest and which was later covered by the medieval Christian necropolis.
As these walls were in an apparently superior excerpt from that of the Christian necropolis, the investigators thought that they belonged to the hermitage, but they found more bodies of the "medieval Christian cemetery, used until". 39th, 15th or 16th century ". "
" We were also looking for the hermitage of Our Lady of the Martyrs, the primitive hermitage, the first established on the territory after the Christian conquest, but we did not find it, c & rsquo; Is still the abandoned Islamic neighborhood that lies beneath this cemetery, which intrigued us because we did not expect it. "
These data allowed to perceive that there was" a development in the construction of this district ", because" there is terraced construction "and up to" same excavation in the rock and preparation of this land to implant "buildings, subli" There are already plans to continue, because in fact the necropolis continues with the discovery of a cat who is buried in the Christian necropolis, because in these places there there is "no bibliographic record" on the burials of domestic animals, 1965-19003 with many burials, the Islamic quarter stretches and extends on all this ground, and we must understand the boundaries of the neighborhood, the area that it occupies, to know a little more about the way of life of this community that here inhabited, the relationship with the sea, with the land, what they did. Therefore, we already have plans for the future and many questions to ask, "said Cristina Garcia
but the researcher warned that" funding and support "are needed to set up" a project "We have projects, we know how much it costs, but it must be between all, it can not be just power."
"We have projects, we know how much it costs, local , considered, qualifying the support given by the Municipal Council of Vila Real de Santo António as "preponderant in all logistics" for a search that also had the support of the DRCAlg and the Algarve University [19659002ThetrainingwasalsopartofthisarchaeologicalcampaigninCacelaVelhaprovidingfieldworktostudentsasinthecasesofMiriamSoaresandFranciscoCardosorespectivelyfromtheuniversitiesofAlgarveandfromPorto
"It's interesting we learn in class, but when we get to the field, it's completely different and we are faced with the reality, and this situation is not so usual, it's an experience, it's interesting, "said Miriam Soares [19659003] Francisco Cardoso also acknowledged that the excavations allowed him to have a" good experience "and" get out of this. " that the theory "was learning in class:" Therefore, coming to a search for volunteering is very important. for an archaeologist "
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