There are many cases when, during some works, in the middle of the city, to adapt the accessibility to the square or to dig up in order to expand the metro line, the employees themselves are the first to find archaeological residues, which leads to great joy for experts in this area, as well as yes, stop the work under consideration.
This is a case of reconstruction of works Gardens of Dr. Fleming And improve Gardynskaya Square which were held in Barcelones del the district, Work that exposed bone remains up to the 25th centuryFound in different funeral units and correspond to different floors and ages.
And, according to the first conclusions, we are talking about Men, women and children Whose remains were introduced to the historical cemetery of the Hospital De La Santa Cruz, known as El Corret. The find consists of 18 funeral units with 25 buried faces In anatomical connection, that is, with the skeleton partially or completely formulated, which indicates that the bodies were not transmitted after the burial.
Also Rosarists or medals
The remains, in simple tombs or wooden coffins, did not consist of human remains, and some contained personal objects, such as rosary or medals. This conclusion allows you to confirm that Corralet worked as Active cemetery longer than it was thought Even after the decree of Carlos III 1775, which forbade burials in the city center.
And not only that. In addition to these graves, the intervention allowed to find Great tank In the place where ancient planes are identified as “Actors Room” and “Patio and Laundry”. When this structure was abandoned, in the middle of the 19th century it was filled with a large number of human bones, probably from the reorganization of the cemetery in order to transform it in the courtyard.
The archaeological intervention conducted in the Catalan capital was advanced Bimsa And the director Vanesa Triay (Atics). And registered as part of urban action, promoted at the end of February last year. The intervention determined that in many cases the bones were in a semi -atomic connection, which indicates mass remodeling of tombs and erratic transmission of bodies without an individual process.
Archaeological work also confirms the direct relations of this area with the medical and anatomical practices that were completed. In any case, this set of archaeological discoveries Open a new window to explain the health and social reality of Barcelona of the seventeenth -19th centuryIn the context of high demographic density, unhealthy and repeating epidemics.
The current works that have allowed to restore human remains and documented structures in planes, such as Francesca Renart (1804) or a quarter, de Harriga I Roca (1858), represent a unique opportunity to deepen the historical knowledge of the hospital complex and in social and medical practice of that time. After the intervention is completed, all the extracted materials will be analyzed by archaeological equipment in order to complete the interpretation of the site.
