Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "History of Carmona, Spain" in English language version.
And here to Sevilla, which could aspire to be the capital of Spain, occupying a position bordering the Visigothic kingdom, which now has its capital in Toledo, and the domains of Byzantium, extending from the hillsides of Carmona to the province of Murcia.
{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)Carmona: Prehistoric Tumuli and Roman Necropolis – Mr. George Bonsor writes to the London Times of 23 August 1887: "About six years ago a Spanish gentleman, Don Juan Fernández, and myself purchased the two plots of land known as The Quarries and The Olive Groves (situated at a short distance west of Carmona) and commenced our excavations. Upon this site were some curiously shaped mounds which we afterwards found to be tumuli of a prehistoric age. Round these mounds the Romans had for centuries hewn, out of the rock, small chambers to serve as family-tombs. These are from four to five yards square and of the height of a man. In the walls are small cavities or niches for the cinerary urns, each of which last generally contains (beside the ashes of the dead) a coin, a mirror, a lachrymary, needles, a stilus and tabula, and a signet-ring. The walls are mostly painted in fresco or distemper in the Pompeian style, with representations of birds, dolphins, and wreaths of flowers. Near the entrance of each tomb is the crematorium, also hewn out of the rock, on the sides of all of which signs of fire are still visible. Up to the present time about 320 tombs have been discovered. They are disposed in groups, some around the tumuli, some near the Roman quarries and on both sides of the Roman roads, two of which ran from Carmona to Seville through the necropolis.
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