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Research on the Roman quarries of the municipality of Caravaca de la Cruz, who since the nineties until now have carried out several teams from the University of Murcia and the Archaeological Museum of La Soledad, will be presented by Professor Sebastian F. Ramallo Asensio and the municipal archaeologist Francisco Yagüe Brotóns under the international symposium organized by the Center for Research and Artistic Creation of the French School of Advanced Hispanic and Iberian Studies, will be held at its headquarters in the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid between 8 and 9 February.

The number of quarries which were exploited from the Iron Age in the municipality of Caravaca is far from complete, although in recent years has had the opportunity to recognize and study a remarkable set.

Highlights the Ibero-Roman quarries of Cerro de la Ermita de La Encarnación, Barranco of Stonecutters, The Placica, Villares, Villaricos and Cavila, all in the parish of the Incarnation and the Roman quarries of Cerro de las Fuentes Archivel and Cabezuela of Barranda.

Especially significant were the works developed in the 90s of last century in quarries paths linked to the construction of the Roman temples of Cerro de la Ermita de la Encarnación.

Archaeological excavations of the fronts and banks extraction not only provided information on various technical processes, but also allowed documenting the end of the work in the late second century AD

The symposium will be held in Madrid to present the new findings and to update field data still unpublished.

Attention to the ancient quarries of the peninsula is relatively new and often had as its starting point the use of a material or another for the building of a monument or monuments.

This was the case of the quarry Mèdol (Tarragona) or soon after, from the quarries that allowed building Cartagena.

Today research has increased thanks to several teams working: some prioritizing the study of mining models, others the use of stone (as a construction material, sculptural or epigraphic) and even spatial analysis of farms within a territory.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz