Peñas de la Cerca

Peñas de la Cerca is an Iron Age hillfort, in the province of Zamora, north-western Spain [1]. Situated in a mountainous region on the north-western edge of the Northern Sub-Plateau, the site controls the middle of the Tera valley, between the natural shires of Sanabria and Carballeda [1]. The site was excavated in two consecutive seasons in 2007 and 2008 by the PIDPAPZ project scientific team and supervised by the archaeologists Jose Carlos Sastre Blanco and Oscar Rodriguez Monterrubio [1]. Archaeological finds place this site in an intermediate period between the 1st and the 2nd Iron Age about the 7th century BC [1]. It covers an area of around 2 hectares and settlement is distributed on tells [1]. Excavations and surveys on the site have made possible the identification of several enclosures covering the north slope of the hill where the settlement was constructed [1].