Review of parapets
Introduction
A fort is a fortified town, generally pre-Roman, although there are later examples that lasted until the Middle Ages in Europe and typical of the late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. They are frequently found in the Iberian Peninsula, particularly in the northwest with the Castro culture and on the plateau with the Cogotas culture.
The word castro comes from the Latin castrum, which means "military fortification" (hence comes the Spanish word castrense, "relating to the military").
Another name by which hillforts are known is oppidum (plural oppida), particularly when they are large.[1].
The Castro culture
The fort is a fortified town that began to be inhabited since the century BC. C., lacking streets that form right angles and full of buildings with an almost always circular plan. The oldest houses were mostly made of straw-mud and the most recent were made of masonry. The roof was made of branches and mud and then made of long poles. Fundamentally, they were unique stays. They are located in naturally protected places (heights, river bends, small peninsulas), near sources and arable lands and on the border between these and higher grazing areas.
The forts were protected by one or more moats, parapets "Parapet (military)") and walls that bordered the inhabited area, and could have at their entrances a tower "Torreón (construction)") that controlled the entrance routes to it or in another strategic place.
In times of conflict, people who lived in the open countryside moved to these buildings, located in strategic places in order to guarantee their safety. They could also have other purposes such as control of the territory, surveillance of crops, etc.
Its location in the territory with respect to other forts suggests that there was a defined strategy when choosing its location, allowing communication by signals between them as a defensive network.
The period of maximum flowering is between the centuries - BC. C. and those from the south demonstrate greater commercial contact with the outside than those from the north, and those from the coast than those from the interior. The historian Ferreira de Almeida") maintains that in the first half of the century BC there seems to be a multiplication of forts (either due to demographic increase or for other reasons). At the end of that century and coinciding with the final phase of the Roman conquest, some show signs of destruction of the walls and in some cases of immediate reoccupation.