They find tablets inside the wall of Leon that could vary their historical origins

During the workings of restoration and cleaning of the wall of Leon, that began 17 of November the past, the archaeologists are shortage new elements that can throw new data on the Roman time that gave rise to the city of Leon. One is 16 funeral tablets with inscriptions in low relief that the Romans, at their delayed time, used for the construction of the outer face of the buckets of the wall of Leon. Stony documents that, after their analysis, could throw new tracks on from Leon history.

The existence of these tablets that `leoneses' of the time used as construction equipment will determine of one more a more precise form questions like the time at which the wall of the city rose, of which still conserves good part. But also it puts to the archaeologists on the track of a new data: the possible existence of one necrópolis that it could been have located in the neighborhoods of denominated buckets one and two, in the zone of the Clarisas.

Image of the tablets found in Leon

In case to confir this hypothesis to me shortage would be had, in addition, a unknown organization of the city of Leon in its beginnings, that could make specific the chronological and organic conception of the capital, as well as the constructive structure of the wall. The town councillor of Culture and Patrimony in the City council of Leon, Evelia Fernandez, has commented east Wednesday in the presentation of the findings that, through these new stony rest, abren new horizons on the history of the city and than it was the Roman camping that gave rise to Leon.

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