The archaeological monitoring work that promotes the company Aqualia in the streets Pintor Llorens and Avenida Marquesado, creation of new infrastructure in water distribution networks, are paying off.
The trench made, which runs through the center of the two vials, allowed accredit and finding, in an area where there were few archaeological data, which is in the basement a high density of archaeological structures that confirm the existence of an urban network the old dense andalusí raval.
The archaeological monitoring has the technical direction of Carles Monfort, archaeologist, and with the supervision of the Municipal Service of Archeology of Denia and Aqualia financing in accordance with current legislation on heritage.
The trench, which is now open on Avenida Marquesado, between Calle Pintor Llorens and Arturo Vicens, has affected islands of houses twelfth century and the western stretch of the wall of Fortí, rabad amir or large raval of Daniya.
It has discovered the canvas of the wall that enclosed the west and the Barbican, which follows the same guidelines for monitoring the Camí dels Lladres further south. So the exact route of the ancient fortification system which had the city is found.
The archaeological record is basically the twelfth century. Fortune, however, has made a great ataifor discover or tray XI century in perfect condition. It is an imported part, provinente Qairawan; a major port which is located in Tunisia, which maintained trade and traffic of people and goods with Daniya relations during the centuries of Al-Andalus.
This archaeological intervention allows a clear sequence of archaeological stratigraphy, right in the center of andalusí raval, and documentation offers data dimensions and archeology of this important area of Dénia Muslim.
Thus, although the two streets belong to ctual Saladar district, a thousand years ago subsoil credited urbanism and advanced domestic architecture, which succumbed to the Christian conquest, back in 1242. Not return to urban life until the late nineteenth century.
A relatively new and, at the same time, very old urbanization.
Text: Josep A. Gisbert
municipal archeology.
