El Espinillo, a Late Iron Age dump area in Villadiego, (Burgos, Spain)

Abstract

This paper represents the first systematic research about the Late Iron Age site of El Espinillo ever published. The site is located in the Spanish province of Burgos, regional council of Castilla y LeA?n, in the municipality of Villadiego, and nearby the villages of Villadiego and Villalibado. This work presents an approach to the scarce historiography and aims to highlight the singularity of such site within the regional settlement pattern. The research about El Espinillo has been carried out by means of non-destructive techniques as artefactual survey and aerial photography detection. These allow us to present some conclusions and future work idea for a major understanding of the settlement pattern and the exploitation strategies during the Late Iron Age in the Iberian Northern Plateau.