The City of Eagle is holding the third annual workshop of Archaeology, which includes about a dozen women who were divided into two groups, one for beginners and one advanced, the latter with the students who have attended the first years of restoration.
Participants received this morning a visit from Mayor Bartolome Hernandez and Councilwoman Women, Maria Patrocinio Martinez, who along with the municipal archaeologist Juan de Dios Hernández, toured the facility where the activity is performed, and consolidated within the program annual events that offer the said council, where they could see the great work of these women, according to the words of Mayor Eagles.
Over several months, two days a week, these groups learn the whole process of restoration of archaeological pieces from the entry into the funds from excavation, prospecting or donation, to its presentation as a museum-piece.
The tasks include: washing and cleaning of the fragments, salting and drying, gluing and assembly of the various pieces, applying wax molds, plaster reintegration volume, color application and implementation of the technical specifications of process monitoring.
Are currently being treating a twenty ceramic tiles, large volume, at the end of the course can be seen in the timely exhibition to be held in the Archaeological Museum.
Most of them correspond to the Roman period, although covering a time span of more than seven centuries, belonging to the Roman settlement of Eagles.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas