The other day we took a walk over to the headland by the beach near the house where there’s the site of an iron age fort.
Then I was reading in the local paper that some buildings are being demolished / rebuilt in San Cibroa (mermaid town.)
When we went to Little Beach which is the other side of San Cibroa, you can get a good idea of the buildings in question. It’s the concrete skeleton and another building which they’re currently taking down.
We’d always thought that these were buildings that perhaps were started being built before the banking crisis, which had hit Spain property hard.
However, it transpires the buildings were started being built in 1974 – when – to the building company’s horror (I imagine), they found remains of an iron age settlement. And the development was put on hold. I
Then, when the research had been done, so long had passed that the original owners had died and the properties had fallen into the super-complex Spanish inheritance black hole – and only now has it been sorted with the council buying the properties.
The skeleton we can see in the pic will have its top two levels removed and the rest will be turned into a museum, visitor center and car park – displaying the history of the iron age settlement and, I guess, things that they found.
But all the area in the red in the pic above is the site of the iron age settlement, which must have been quite a find!
This is it without my scribblings_
Our Iron Age Fort
View from ‘our’ iron age fort in the other direction towards Burela. We can just see the beach at the top of the pic. That was where we walked to the other evening, along the coast path, which was quite nice 🙂