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The site of the banal, in Uncastillo, held an open day.

The Roman site of the banal held next Sunday, July 18, its second open house, an activity will be known excavation work being carried out in domestic and institutional area of the site, where in recent weeks have found the remains of a monumental arcaded square.

So I explained to Europa Press scientific director of the Research Plan at the, sto credits, site of the banal, Javier Andreu, noting that the purpose of these open days is "teach" the public "what progress has been made in research in the field "throughout this year, as well as the work developed in this second campaign of excavation, which began last June 26 and will end on 24 July.

Thus, "we will do a guided tour of, aika gold, the baths, the aqueduct, the domestic spaces of the Roman city, which are being studied in this campaign, the Roman dam and show the monumental arcaded square.

In his view, the most surprising thing visitors to the site is "known archaeological methodology" and to find traces that could be considered "unusual in an area of barren mountain," he remarked.

Also, sto credits, surprising growth of the research team, composed this year by fourteen people, three archaeologists, a historian and ten university students on scholarships from the center of the National University of Distance Education (UNED) of Tudela and fifteen universities from five countries , among other points of Granada, Madrid, Italy, Oxford or Pau.

In this campaign, "the idea is to intervene in two areas for further research on the domestic and urban world" from the site of the banal. Thus, in the domestic area and craft continue the work begun last year and are now focusing on the top floor of a house. In the case of public space, we study the area occupied by the first terrace of El Pueyo, where they have found the remains of the arcaded square.

The excavations and the subsequent recovery, disclosure and dissemination of materials, have a budget of 45,000 euros to finance, to fifty percent, the Directorate General of Heritage of the Government of Aragon and private initiative, supported companies such as EON, ACS Foundation, General Wind Aragonesa, Caja Navarra and SERCOMSA.

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