Gate of La Barcina

One of the walls (W2 in the plan) was constructed from rendered masonry combined with vertical columns of sandstone ashlars, and is interpreted as being the boundary wall between both areas of the city.

The other recorded structures (W3 and W4 in the plan) could be interpreted as the gateway and communication between ‘La Barcina’ and the ‘Turba’ neighbourhood. The upper part of the wall which has survived presents quadrangular ashlars roughly joined by mortar. The lower section consists of masonry, also without a predetermined layout. It was made with different-sized, irregular limestone blocks, joined by a mortar of lime, sand and clay. An interior paving could be observed from which some poorly-conserved steps begin to ascend, which would have given access to an upper floor. This would have been the tower that can be seen in Bravo de Acuña’s plan which could in turn correspond to the so-called Flag Tower in early British documentation.