During the excavations carried out in 2018 the head of this building and part of the nave were brought to light. It also confirmed the existence of two entrances to the temple, one in the South and one in the West. The church of Santa Lucia is formed by a rectangular nave of large dimensions and a small head, somewhat disproportionate to the nave, which has the peculiarity of quadrangular shape on the outside and horseshoe on the inside. The building is made with walls of lime formwork and edges, except for the interior of the headboard which is composed of several courses of well-worked ashlars of limestone and sandstone joined together by mortar and stones. The horseshoe-shaped apse has a diameter of 3.13 meters in a north-south direction and 2.65 meters in an east-west direction and an approximate height of 20 centimeters from the anthropic soil. On this ashlar plinth rises the formwork wall that forms the external headboard.
HORSESHOE ARCH
The most characteristic architectural element that this church presents is its internal head
of horseshoe that, next to the material recovered in the archaeological works, dates the building in mozarabic period. The horseshoe plant has an ancient tradition and its origin can be placed in the Roman imperial era. It can also be seen in some basilicas of the 6th and 7th century of the south of the Iberian Peninsula. Visigothic architecture gave it its first important impulse, and from there it went on to Arab and Mozarabic art. This model of header allows to affirm the existence of an unpublished church in the province of Soria, being the first one that maintains this plant inside its head, structure that should have been covered with a vault.
At the foot of the nave of the church, in its northwest corner, appeared a simple grave burial dug in the natural mantle. This burial was occupied by two complete burials. One of them, the one deposited in the first place, appeared in supine position from the femur to the feet with the head facing northwest. The rest of the bones were mixed with the other inhumed. The coverage, formed by stones reported, did not cover the entire grave.
Probably, these inhumations are related to a second phase of occupation of the church
since it is not until the fifteenth century when they begin to generalize the burials inside them. The most favored people occupied privileged spaces, the central nave was reserved for religious categories and royal families and the rest of the population occupied the space left over.
Jug of globular shape and flat base manufactured with a slow lathe and decorated with grooves that cover the entire outer surface. It appeared almost complete and embedded inside a channel located in the west door. It is dated between the 8th and 11th centuries and corresponds to the first years of occupation of the church.
Small rectangular pile, with curved edges at the corners, excavated in natural rock and covered by hydraulic mortar. It appeared in the southwest area of the nave and has been interpreted as a baptismal font linked to baptism by immersion, still in force since early Christian times, and related to the first centuries of use of the temple.
Maravedí de Enrique IV (1457-1471)
Obverse: ENRICVS DEI GRACIA REX
around a circular border that contains a castle.
Reverse: ENRICVS CARTVS REX CA
around a circular border with a crowned lion and a grenade underneath.
The appearance of this coin on the floor of the head of the church indicates that in the fifteenth century it underwent a reform in its paving.
Reserved 17th century coin
In the former territories of the Crown of Castile were especially significant resellos and cuts made on the currency of fleece and copper during the reigns of Felipe III and Felipe IV.
These brands were applied to alter their nominal value and are a reflection of the monetary anarchy reached at that time.
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