Late Antiquity ceramic contexts from the Palatial Building of Santa María de Abajo of Carranque (Toledo)

The archaeological excavation works developed at the site of Santa María de Abajo (Carranque, Toledo) between 2009 and 2011, focused on the space occupied by the Late Roman Palace, have allowed us to know a long occupational sequence developed between Roman times and the early years of 20th century. In this work we present the study of ten ceramic contexts associated with Late Antiquity levels. These contexts allow to identify nine ceramic groups and to know the Late Antiquity sequence –middle 5th to the end of 7th century ad– in this area of the site of Carranque. The performed study allows us to begin to characterize the moments of this Late Antiquity occupation in the analyzed space, being identified three moments; the two first coincide with habitat structures –Phase 2– and the third one is associated to a necropolis –Phase 3–.