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The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has recovered historical documents appeared during the emergency works excavation undertaken in the Torre del Ram and the walls of the Castillo de Lorca to repair the damage caused by earthquakes.
There are a total of 303 pieces of paper that were deposited in the Archivo General de la Region de Murcia, where they have been described and are discussed in the paper restoration laboratory in which have been consolidated.
The documents, very fragmented, were inside the padding inside a canvas wall mingled with stones, soil, bricks and waste materials.
A first observation of the documents found pointed the hypothesis that covered his broad chronological seventeenth century to 1800, which suggested that the repair section of wall in which there was the discovery was made in the early nineteenth century, coinciding with repairs and refortificaciones in the Castle of Lorca is made at the time of the Napoleonic invasion.
However, the presence of a set of fragments belonging to the page of a periodical from 1903 might question that hypothesis.
Finally, documentary fragments identified are extreme dates April 1622 to January 1903, although most, according to the type of writing, can be dated to the eighteenth century.
Almost everyone who retain the data are dated Lorca topical or refer to that city, although there are references to some characters in the town of Baza (Granada).
The documents are generally small, fragmented and its conservation is poor.
Only the larger fragments and some small papers are preserved almost intact to assess its nature.
These are requests and orders to various judicial and administrative magistrates of Lorca, accounting documents (lists of collections, letter about a bill of exchange, printed summary reports, notes and receipts).
The most likely belonged to a file or collection of private papers of a high class family Lorca, kept in any dwelling or building in the city whose demolition materials could be reused to fill the section of the wall.
Despite his precarious condition, the fragments can identify some prominent figures of society lorquina eighteenth century, as the chronicler Fray Pedro Morote, magistrates Jose de Castro and Valcarcel and Torcuato Antonio Collado, council Pedro José Egea and Mula and Juan Antonio Garcia Seron, the notary José Antonio Moreno Benavente and others with surnames of illustrious families of the local oligarchy, as Mecca, Alarcon or Saravia.
Source: CARM
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