General stance of the rural church building of El Boalo [Credit: UAM]
The results of the latest earthworks campaigns, led past times Javier Salido, Professor of Archaeology at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) as well as Charo Gómez (Archaeology Team A) inwards the Cerrillo de El Rebollar (El Boalo, Madrid), accept unearthed a rural church building consisting of a rectangular hall amongst a unmarried nave as well as finished off amongst an apse or squared chancel. The master copy flooring of the edifice underwent of import alterations that volition locomote analysed inwards exceptional inwards hereafter investigations.
The clues for dating the edifice were hidden inwards the tombs that occupy the interior infinite of the nave of the church. In contrast to other known rural churches, the tombs had non been plundered, exactly were inwards an first-class solid put down of preservation, as well as an unaltered as well as perfectly recorded stratigraphy of trouble of the nave has been documented that allows the master copy stage of the edifice as well as subsequent modifications to locomote dated amongst precision.
Eleven graves accept been located within the nave for the moment, perfectly oriented inwards an east-west direction, aligned amongst the perimeter walls.
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