Les Excavacions arqueològiques del jaciment del Molí del Codina de Tàrrega

Hom ha proposat que una de les sinagogues de Tàrrega podia haver estat situada a l'extrem sud de la vila, molt a prop del riu Ondarà, al costat del portal conegut amb el nom de Sant Agustí. L'any 1997, la construcció d'un edifici en un terreny anomenat Molí del Codina oferí la possibilitat de realitzar una intervenció arqueològica amb la intenció de documentar les restes de la muralla medieval i localitzar, en aquell sector, l'estructura d'una de les sinagogues que hi hagué a la vila a l'edat mitjana. L'excavació ha revelat l'existència d'un edifici quasi rectangular construït entre els segles XIII i la primeria del XIV. Els autors exposen la possibilitat que les restes arqueològiques corresponguin a la sinagoga de l'època en què l'aljama ja estava constituïda, però abans que els seus membres s'agrupessin en un barri separat.The archaeological site of Molí del Codina in Tàrrega as a possible location of the 14th-century synagogue For some years now, several researchers, on various grounds, have proposed that one of the synagogues of Tàrrega could have been located at the southern end of the town, very near the River Ondara, beside the gate known as Saint Augustine's Gate. In 1997, the construction of a building on a plot of land known as Molí del Codina made it possible for an emergency archaeological operation to be carried out in order to document, on the one hand, the remains of the ancient medieval wall and, also, to locate within the same sector the structure corresponding to one of the town's synagogues during the Middle Ages. The excavation has revealed some elements belonging to an old oil press dating from the end of the 18th century, some structurl remains of a tannery dating from 16th- 17th century, as well as an almost rectangular building constructed between the 13th and early 14th century. From the evidence at their disposal, the authors put forward the possibility that the archaeological remains on this final level correspond to the original synagogue, dating from the time when the local Jewish community or aljama was already constituted, but before its members were gathered together into a separate district of their own

The Creation of an Experimental Camp of Protohistory at the Iberian Settlement of Estinclells (Verdú, Urgell, Catalonia)

The site of Estinclells is an Iberian Culture settlement in the Municipality of Verdú, Urgell (Catalonia) dating from thethird century BC (See Figures 1 and 2). Archaeological work was carried out between 2002 and 2014 under the auspices of the Regional Museum of Urgell (Museu Comarcal de l’Urgell) and the Archaeology Section of the Centre d’Estudis Lacetans in the framework of the research project entitled, "Economy and Evolution of the Iberian population in the Corb, Ondara and Sió River Valleys: Excavation of the Iberian Settlement of Estinclells, Verdú