Las murallas compartimentadas en los castros de Asturias: bases para un debate

Abstract

Some time ago, divided walls were discovered in some Asturian hill forts. Locally, these were called modular walls and were described as local in origin. More recently, they have been dated to the 6th and 5th centuries BC or even earlier, based on the Campa Torres excavations and the proposed chronology for other settlements. This paper, however, maintains that this type of construction forms part of what is conventionally known as drawer walls, which appeared across the Peninsula during the second Iron Age. At the same time, work in hill forts in the ría de Villaviciosa allows the dating of the Campa wall to be questioned, reinterpreting its stratigraphy while evaluating references to other hill forts. Finally, it is suggested that these walls in Asturias should for now be dated at the 4th and 3rd centuries BC on.