RAP 28 Lopez et al (original) (raw)

The settlement of Gebut (Soses, Segrià, Catalonia), poorly excavated in the 1940s, was abandoned for decades and suffered systematic degradation. A modest intervention was carried out in 1987 to recover the site. Finally, in 2017, an agreement was signed between the City Council of Soses and the University of Lleida to carry out a research and heritage recovery project. This paper presents an overview of the findings of this first campaign that began that year. The interventions carried out at different points of the site, although in an incipient stage, already modify the view of Gebut as a simple oppidum dating from the Middle Iberian Period and offer new data that enriches the site’s scientific and heritage value. Among them are the discovery of a wall with towers from the Early Iron Age, a dating of the abandonment of a cistern from the Early Iberian period, the discovery of an expansion of the settlement to the north spanning the 3rd century BC, changes in the road network, and the discovery of a space where wine was possiby produced, features that are unusual in the Iberian period in Catalonia. Keywords: Iron Age, Iberian World, Ilergets, Lower Segre River region, fortification, wine production.