The mayor, Toni Pérez and the councilwoman for Heritage, Ana Pellicer, visit the site where teachers and students from Archaeology at the University of Alicante have been working
Among the ruins of a cylindrical sinker used in the construction of the wall and the tack of a Roman sandal appears
The archaeological site of El Tossal de La Cala, continues to enrich the historical heritage of Benidorm and confirming the strategic value that had this military enclave built by Quintus Sertorius around the year 77 B.C. The 4th season of excavations promoted this summer by Benidorm City Council and conducted by the Department of Archaeology at the University of Alicante, has discovered new remains of the wall surrounding the Roman settlement and new remains fragmented of ceramic from Republican times. Among those found pieces there is a plumb line of cylindrical stone and a tack of sandals of Roman soldiers.The mayor Toni Pérez and the councilwoman for Heritage, Ana Pellicer, this morning have visited the site and have appreciated the excellent work done by the team of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Alicante directed by the teachers Feliciana Sala and Jesús Moratalla. Work began on 29 August and focused on discovering the remains of the wall that surrounded the "castellum" as well as further progress in the clean and stays documentation that came doing in previous campaigns. Besides musealization of the site has begun with the installation of an information panel that explains, in three languages, the origin of the ruins, a map of the excavations and a recreation of what the castellum must have been with an image taken in 1943. The wall appears in all its length as we saw and described the Father Belda in 1943, and was part of a network of forts located on the north coast of Alicante for monitoring the passage of the ships of the Roman factions during the civil war at the time of the Republic. For the provisional consolidation of the walls, it has been using the same system successfully implemented by MARQ and Architecture department of the Provincial Council of Alicante in the Roman city of Lucentum. With regard to furniture found they are very fragmented. The mayor highlighted the effort and investigation of the remains of the site of Tossal in La Cala, highlighting the involvement of the City Council to get the "museological" of this archaeological park, that must involved the civil society, "because he said, it is an important part of our history, something in which we have to put economic and human efforts".
