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Castro del Raso, Candeleda

Iron-Age oppidum
Type
Iron-Age oppidum

El Raso

Pleiades ID: 236626

settlement

Description

A fortified settlement of the Vettones located in the municipality of Candeleda (Ávila, Spain) near the hamlet of El Raso. Archaeological remains at the site consist of several walled enclosures distributed in at least three areas covering some 20 ha.

See Further

  • BAtlas 24 F4 El Raso
    Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43970336.
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  • Fernández Gómez 1986
    Fernández Gómez, Fernando. Excavaciones Arqueológicas En El Raso de Candeleda. 2 vols. Avila: Institución Gran Duque de Alba de la Excma. Diputación Provincial de Avila, 1986.
  • Wikipedia (Spanish) Castro del Raso
    Wikipedia: la enciclopedia de contenido libre. Wikimedia Foundation, 2001. https://es.wikipedia.org.
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Citation Information

E.W. Haley. "El Raso" Pleiades, 30 April 2020. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236626.
Last modified: 2020-04-30T12:41:36Z

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Location

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