One of the most important new developments this year was the discovery among the remains of the Celtiberian-Republican town of a Muslim necropolis dating back to the emirate of Cordoba. This confirms information found in written Muslim sources.

62 individual tombs were found in the form of a ditch about 40/50 cm wide. These tombs were created over the destruction and abandonment of homes in the Sertorian town. Radiocarbon dating of some of the bone remains points to the second half of the 9th century. The exhumed bodies were of adult men aged between 20 and 40, many of whom had serious head injuries, missing limbs and even arrowheads stuck in their bones. These signs of violent death mean that the maqbara can be linked to certain specific historical events in the area: the emirate of Muhammad I (852-886) and the loss of Umayyad control over the peripheral territories.