handle

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Find coordinates (within a 5-meter radius): 38.414837, -6.444710

Description: The southwest mountainside (nearer the top) is absolutely littered with sherd handles such as this. I chose to pseudo-document this one due to its coherence. It’s lost whatever glaze it may have had and has broken off at the joints. Notable features include the two raised lines that run parallel in a steep parabola on both sides.

jota sherd

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Find coordinates (within a 5-meter radius): 38.414888, -6.444758

Description: This sherd I found down along the small, mid-mountain ridge which is all but invisible from the top of the mountain. This piece offers a view of some fairly intricate design work done on what would have been its exterior; note the blue paint surrounding the design; the more I look at it the more I wonder whether what I think is dirt in the center is actually a corroded metal and whether what I call blue is actually a shade of green patina along its edges. Curious.

Because an old man on the mountain told me that the house foundation very near to the findspot is that of a Roman house, I’m curious to know whether this piece is an example of Roman ceramic work.

glazed pot base (sherd)

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Find coordinates (within a 5-meter radius): 38.415354, -6.443814

Description: Savannah found this one just below a path we understand to be the ancient road which cuts across the southwest side of the mountain near the top. The road is marked with boulders here and again and descends on the southeastern side of the main ridge down to the lower-altitude ridge.

The sherd yet retains some of its original glaze and sports a lovely swirl pattern on the inside. It could be Roman and it could be Moorish; we cannot be sure.