THE ANDALUSIAN GRANARIES

Towards the end of the eighth century and beginning of the nineth, a second Andalusian phase is documented that produced great changes in the urban landscape of the city, now called Madinat Raqqubal. One of these transformations was the proliferation of granary pit complexes associated with new dwellings for the storage of grain, obtained from intensive agricultural exploitation of the territory. These granaries, generally associated with the new houses, were located in spaces previously occupied by Visigothic-era constructions. They were pits excavated into the geological level and waterproofed with a clay lining, then covered by a circular stone slab once the cereal was introduced.