A VilavellaHill fort of A Cabeciña
It is a small Romanised fortified village, located on the top of a natural hill at an altitude of 1065 metres, between the Río da Veiga and the Río do Santo. This castro (hillfort), which dates back to the Iron Age (8th century BC - year 0), is surrounded by fertile land that is particularly suitable for cultivation to the east and southeast of the site.
It has a small, oval-shaped croa or acropolis, defended by an embankment that ends in another platform. This then ends in another earth slope that reinforces the anthropic defences of the site.
During the cataloguing work carried out on this archaeological site in 1991, pieces of common Roman pottery and indigenous pottery were found on the surface. Later, a resident of A Vilavella referred to the appearance of "Roman coins", although this information was not verified.
A prehistoric fortified village
During the Iron Age, human settlements in the northwest of the peninsula were concentrated in high places such as O Castro da Cabeciña (parish of A Vilavella) or Castelo Pequeno (parish of Santigoso), which were fortified with parapets, stone walls and wooden stakes to complement the natural conditions of defence.
