The excavation campaign carried out last September at the Cabezo del Molino in Rojales under the direction of the archaeologist Teresa Ximénez de Embún, opens up a hopeful new horizon in Alicante archaeology. The work carried out in this area, in which the MARQ was intervening for the first time, has made it possible to locate, together with the Islamic industrial remains, a large Visigoth necropolis (7th century). Throughout this first campaign, ten tombs with a single pit and covered with slabs were located, of which only three could be excavated. In one of them, in addition to the bone remains that will be radiocarbon dated in the Beta Analytic laboratories in Miami, a simple bronze belt clasp was found at the hip level of a child burial.
The necropolis of Cabezo Molino is one of the first intact Visigothic necropolises that can be excavated and studied in its entirety in our province, both from the point of view of funerary archaeology and from the perspective of anthropology and genetics, as the graves are perfectly sealed and have not been plundered. The Town Hall has fenced off the perimeter to prevent free access to the area.
In addition to Teresa Ximénez and Juan Antonio López, archaeologists and co-directors of the excavation, the presentation of these very important findings was attended by the vice-president of MARQ and deputy for culture, César Augusto Asencio, the mayor of Rojales, Antonio Pérez, the technical director of MARQ, Manuel Olcina, and the managing director of the MARQ Foundation, José Alberto Cortés.
