Description
In the well-known Cerro de la Horca, very close to the village of Toya and the famous castle-archaeological site of its same name, is the great tomb known as the funeral chamber of Toya.
The camera has rectangular floor with three ships. The greater than the sides, and these to the right and left, have an antecedent that is accessed by false arches with simulated capitel in their jambas. In the interior of the receptacles we can observe banks and poyetes to deposit the cineries and the joules. The side and central ships have niches on the walls to receive offerings. The construction of about four meters in length by almost three meters wide is made with large armchairs adjusted to the time of its assembly and covered by a structure of large slabs. The whole construction is of a monumental character, cyclopean by the size of some armchairs and dintels. In terms of its content, we must refer to the recovered, and among all this we highlight the Greek ceramics of red figures, especially the crateras and the metal elements among which the remains of a car stand out. His chronology includes it within the Iberian culture of the end of the S. V and the beginning of the IV before Christ. The aim of this stop is to show how a main funeral chamber is and its meaning in the context of the Iberian aristocratic society. The Centre of the Principesque Tombs of Peal allows you to know the theme of the life of the ultratumba and the funeral rites.
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