El Castillón

El Castillón is an archaeological site located in the Spanish hamlet of Santa Eulalia de Tábara, in the municipality of Moreruela de Tábara, province of Zamora, region of Castile and León on the Spanish mainland. The site covers an area of about 4 hectares and is situated over a plateau at the top of a hill located on the right riverside of the River Esla (tributary of the Douro). The site has been inhabited since the Iron Age, but the most known period of the site belongs to the Late Roman Era as a large number of late Hispano-Roman red gloss pottery testifies. Early Modern period is clearly represented by pieces of grey and printed pottery type DSP. Hand made pottery is in a few number and it has been unearthed in limited areas and secondary depots, In spite of it, it clearly belongs to the 1st Iron Age. The site is enclosed by a U-shaped wall surrounding the settlement but the east where an abrupt cliffs falls to the river. It belongs, since 1985, to the Regional Government of Castilla y León Inventory of Protected Heritage in the category of Cave Painting Sample, because just below the site, in a shelter of the cliff falling to the river, schematic art samples were found in the site known as the 'shelter of El Castillón'.