El sistema defensivo de la ciudad fenicia de La Fonteta (Guardamar del Segura, Alicante)

Campaña de 2018–2019

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present some of the results achieved in the season 2018– 2019 in the archaeological site of La Fonteta. Work focused on the southeastern area of the site, mainly on the fortification and related spaces and buildings. The existence of a casematte wall with square towers, reinforcement walls and outer structures such as a glacis and an avant-mur has been confirmed. The structures show some features which indicate its hasty construction, maybe related to instability processes which took place in the lower Segura valley around the early 6th centuries BC. Some subsequent remodeling of the wall was also attested for the third quarter of the 6th century BC.