Two males concerned 350 archaeological items, some from the Bronze Age, and 200 bone stays in Alicante


Two males are being investigated as alleged perpetrators of against the law of misappropriation It is without doubt one of the largest unlawful personal collections in Alicante They didn’t have any kind of documentation to justify their possession or regularization

The Civil Guard, within the so-called Osarium operation, has investigated two males as alleged perpetrators of against the law of aggravated misappropriation of products of historic, cultural or scientific worth. One of the biggest unlawful personal collections in Alicante has been intervened.

The investigation started in November, when the brokers realized, by way of the Gata de Gorgos Local Police, that there have been varied historic bone stays inside a house. In a primary section, the stays discovered have been dated between 4,000 and 5,000 years previous. The Technical Inspection of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat Valenciana decided that mentioned assortment didn’t have any doc that endorsed its possession.

The collaboration of the proprietor through the investigation allowed the invention, in flip, of a bigger assortment in a house in Dénia (Alicante). The brokers discovered a big quantity of archaeological and paleontological items. The items had supposedly been inherited by the present inhabitant of the home of a deceased relative. However, it didn’t have any kind of documentation that will justify its possession or regularization.

The Civil Guard has investigated the 2 house owners of those unlawful collections as alleged perpetrators of against the law of misappropriation. Both investigations have been reported to the Court of First Instance and Instruction No. 1 of Dénia.

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Some items from the Bronze Age and the Neolithic

Among the items seized on this home, highlights are Betic, Phoenician and Punic amphoras; mills and ceramics from the Bronze Age and the Neolithic interval, weights of a loom from Ancient Rome, cannons, Roman mosaic tiles, fossils and a human cranium, amongst different issues. Manuscripts of the deceased relative have been additionally discovered the place notes of the precise locations the place the items have been discovered seem.

The research by specialists may assist to this point the origin and context of the items, thereby rising their worth, and even facilitating the placement of latest archaeological websites.