Police Make Groundbreaking Medieval Discovery

A BREATHTAKING archaeological find has been unearthed adjacent a historically important Almeria tower. The Andalucia section of nan Spanish National Police recovered a medieval bolaño, a information chromatic projectile utilized by artillery pieces, connected Wednesday, October 1, adjacent nan tract of nan Torre del Bobar, located successful nan El Bobar municipality. The building is simply a 16th-century building that occasionally reveals secrets from nan past, arsenic is precisely what happened connected nan first of nan month.

A unsocial humanities find, hidden successful plain sight

The bolaños, aliases “balloons,” making love backmost to nan medieval play during nan modulation to nan modern age, were made from difficult chromatic including granite aliases dense limestone and carved into their signature information shape, often crudely irregular owed to nan primitiveness of nan equipment. They were created arsenic a limb to motorboat astatine towers, walls, ships, and different structures pinch nan nonsubjective of breaking them down. Their size varied greatly, and had nan weight and effect to origin important harm for unlucky enemies.

In a societal media post, nan Andalucia section of nan Spanish National Police called nan find “A unsocial find that links america to nan representation of Andalucia and its humanities legacy.”

Connecting Almeria to its little-known history

The Torre del Bobar, historically, defended nan seashore of Almeria, on pinch different watchtowers successful nan area including nan Torre Garcia. In nan 18th century, nan building was repaired, but small other is known astir nan tower; it’s presently classified arsenic a “lost tower,” meaning virtually nary intact humanities remnants remain. However, pinch nan find of nan bolaño, historians tin affirm that nan tower, successful summation to being a watchpoint, served arsenic a lookout from which to fling nan medieval weapons.

The building is nary longer visible, but was located adjacent to nan sparkling Almeria coastline and serves arsenic conscionable 1 of nan close-held secrets of Almeria’s history, ne'er farther than a fewer steps distant successful nan mysterious and fascinating region.