Concluding, in Pla de l'Horta we are facing
a necropolis largely comparable to most
of those that extend in the center of the peninsula
Iberian and that responds to the most common parameters
of this type of necropolis. Located near a large
communication route (the Via Augusta) and a major river
(the Ter), next to an old Roman villa,
It extends over a flat, gently sloping ground
towards the east, in the direction of the road and the river. Known
in a partial way, it is composed of a minimum
of 58 burials, none of them reused,
most in pit and a few (16) in cist,
other types of tomb being absolutely minority
(a tegulae box and a sarcophagus). In one part
important of the inhumations objects were recovered
of typical Germanic ornamentation
(brooches, buckles, fibulae ...), and its chronology
could establish quite accurately between finals
of the V century and the beginning of the VII as extreme dates.
We do not doubt that we are in front of a cemetery
unique in this area, used by elements of
Goth origin and Arian confession, establishing
so in this case a direct relationship between the type of
necropolis and the ethnic-cultural characteristics of
buried in it, an extreme that has sometimes
questioned or has been relativized in other cases
similar42. We do not know with absolute certainty the
habitat of those buried in Pla de l'Horta, but the
Visigoth presence in this region is more than enough
justified given the proximity of the strategic city
of Gerunda, the existence of a military castellum
control of an important communication channel
and, even, the possibility of reoccupation of an important
Roman villa as was Pla de l'Horta.
Finally, we can not escape that abandonment
of the necropolis coincides roughly with
the unifying provisions of Leovigildo and Recaredo
and the conversion to Catholicism of the community
goda Undoubtedly, the Visigoths of the region (except
probably those who resided in it
city of Gerunda, which already had its own areas
cemeteries) were buried thereafter
elsewhere, perhaps in the old church of Sant
Julià, but also, why not, in a cemetery
common with the Hispano-Romans in the area, that we could
locate in all probability in the neighbor and
nearby necropolis of Les Goges, clearly dated