roman house – la casa romana
May 13, 2012 2 Comments
![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/8b535.jpg)
ruin from the southeast – la ruina como visto del sureste
![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/TiOgb.jpg)
lower ridge formation – linea de sierra abajo
![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/3rPIc.jpg)
foundation – base
![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/2AhG6.jpg)
foundation – base
![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/UhGcx.jpg)
foundation – base
![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/AmTeF.jpg)
location map – mapa de colocacion
Site coordinates: 38.415253, -6.444951
Description: While walking one day on the ridge I met an old man who told me that “somewhere down there” was a “Roman house”. Now I can’t say certainly whether this structure was indeed inhabited by an Italian, but I did find this and this directly below it on the mountain slope.
The structure appears to be circular and is situated on a lower, minor ridge on the southeast mountainside. There’s a heavy concentration of pottery sherds along this lower ridge. The structure appears in a photo dated 2001 in Patromonio Oculto de Zafra by Jose Antonio Amador Redondo. In this photo, portions of walls remain; today, the structure is ruined to its foundation and was difficult for me to identify at all.