An image from lidar scans reveals the vast scale of the early medieval fortress beneath the forest at Castro Valente in Spain's northwestern Galicia region.Image credit: Castelos no Aire
Posted on 02/21/2023 4:54:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Laser scans have revealed that what was thought to be an Iron Age hillfort in northwestern Spain is, in fact, an early medieval stronghold built in the fifth century A.D. and occupied for the next 200 years...
The team found the stronghold on a hilltop in northwestern Spain by using lidar — light detection and ranging — to peer beneath a forest covering the ruins... revealed an early medieval fortress covering about 25 acres (10 hectares), with 30 towers and a defensive wall about three-quarters of a mile (1.2 kilometers) long. The fortress seems to have been built in the first half of the fifth century A.D., possibly on top of an earlier Iron Age hilltop fort, to defend against Germanic invaders after Roman control of the region had collapsed, study author Mário Fernández-Pereiro, an archaeologist at University College London and the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), told Live Science.
The site, called Castro Valente ("Brave Fort"), is in the Galicia region's Padrón district, about 16 miles (16 km) southwest of the city of Santiago de Compostela...
Locals thought Castro Valente had been built after the about ninth century B.C. by a Celtic people, called the "Callaeci" in Latin, who lived in Galicia at that time...
When Fernández-Pereiro and José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo, also a USC archaeologist and co-author of the study, began researching the site, they also thought Castro Valente was a fortified Celtic settlement. But they soon found evidence that the buried structure was much larger than they expected and that parts of it were built with methods not used in the Iron Age.
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An image from lidar scans reveals the vast scale of the early medieval fortress beneath the forest at Castro Valente in Spain's northwestern Galicia region.Image credit: Castelos no Aire
Might have been Romano-Celtic resistance to the Visigoths. Galicia was Celtic in those days.
LIDAR is fascinating. I’ve been watching NatGeo docu’s on the finds in the Amazon via LIDAR. There is lots out there!
I get an error, "This video isn't available anymore," but it might just be the flaky wifi I'm currently using.
Is this what China just did with their radars over Hawaii?
2/21/2023 -- Giant Submerged City discovered across the WHOLE Florida Keys + Ancient fort in swamp
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