Castrametación romana en la Meseta Norte hispana: nuevas evidencias de recintos militares en la vertiente meridional de la cordillera Cantábrica (provincias de Burgos y Palencia)

Abstract

Between 2018 and 2020 we have carried out, on the initiative of the Castilla y León Government, the Research Project Roma frente a Cántabros y Astures. Its main purpose has been to generate a management, knowledge and protection instrument that includes all the Roman military establishments located in Castilla y León and related to this historical period. The development of the project has led to the sum, in the general catalogue of sites, of other hitherto unpublished Roman camps. In fact, the prospecting and remote sensing work that we have carried out in the provinces of Palencia and Burgos has allowed us to increase the catalogue of known military sites by several tens. In this work, in which we have paid special attention to the sites identified around Herrera de Pisuerga and in the Burejo basin, as well as those along the natural route between Sasamón and Abia de las Torres, we present a remarkable block. The identification of these new sites provides a solid base that will allow us to make significant progress in our knowledge of the Roman military presence in this region between the Cantabrian wars and the 1^st and 2^nd centuries AD.