La necrópolis de San Martín de Montalbán. Yerri. Navarra [The necropolis of San Martín de Montalbán. Yerri, Navarre]

Abstract

The action which has taken place in this area has allowed obtaining partial information about the cemetery area associated to the unpopulated place of Asna, proceeding to register a total of 21 graves. The discovered necropolis corresponds to the Christian rite, corpses in supine decubitus position which are oriented from West to East. The deceased were introduced into cists without the existence of coffins of wood being detected. Some morphological aspects of the graves have appeared, as the appearance of earflaps and boundary stones by means of milestones placed in the head-board of the grave, one of them by means of a discoid stele. From a chronological point of view, the necropolis covers a wide chronological period which seems to...