In 2019 we published in Hecate. Numismatic Journal a paper based on the analysis of a set of 7 ponderal ítems recovered at El Raso (Candeleda, Ávila). This settlement is located in the river valley of the Tiétar, a zone whith numerous sites dated during the last millennium BC have been documented, such as the habitat and necropolises in Pajares (Villanueva de la Vera, Cáceres) or the Castro del Freíllo and the necropolis of Las Guijas (Candeleda, Ávila). The ubication of El Raso on the southern slopes of the Sierra de Gredos has allowed us to understand the functionality of this site as a crossing point between the Northern Plateau and the fertile plains of the rivers Tajo and Guadiana, as evidenced by the numerous artefacts found in both regions.
Weight set found in El Raso de Candeleda (Ávila) (Barrios y González, 2019: 7, fig. 4).
While we were doing the review of archaeological objects deposited in the Museo de Ávila to join in the corpus of the doctoral thesis of one the first author of the article, we identified three unpublished items. Therefore, we start their analysis, which has allowed us to understand how the society of the Castro del Freillo and their cultural and economic relationship was being outlined the significant influence arrived through the Vía de la Plata.
Link to the paper: http://revista-hecate.org/files/6515/7728/7809/BarriosRodriguez-GonzalezHernandez.pdf