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The Municipal Archaeological Museum director, Francisco Peñalver Aroca, reports that have appeared five burial crypts for the restoration of the Church of the Conception of Cehegín.
According Peñalver, "have appeared five vaults, three of them in the chapel of St. John Lateran, one in the nave and the other in an aisle.
So far only been studied at three in the Chapel of San Juan, which were closed by order of King Carlos III, from the late eighteenth century, and they can see a lot of burials.
We could say that more than 300.
Among them is known to be buried Ambel Don Martin and Bernard, the famous inhabitant of the Conception, a refugee who lived there for 40 years, fleeing from justice for an 'affair of honor "against the lieutenant Mayor."
These vaults, dome-shaped, are approximately 8 feet long, 4 wide and 3.5 meters high. "
They can see three different times of burial: the past, are the precipitates, deposited arbitrarily, moments before they were sealed crypts.
The access to these vaults are in the entrance to the Chapel, with steps leading down to them, covered with stone slabs, paving the last time, were removed and some of his remains left inside them, to be subsequently covered the steps of rubble and finally paved over.
"We believe that now after the new flooring will be reinstalled stone slabs that covered them so they can be somewhat stating the place of access to the vaults, for further anthropological studies," said the archaeologist.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín
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