The hill made a perfect sentry post along the Duero between Burgos de Osma and San Esteban de Gormaz.
Also Alcubilla, meaning Small Tower. Today no remnant of the town is visible. The hill is honeycombed with storage caves, and topped by the remains of an ancient castro, which was besieged by the Moslems under Abderrahman III in 920. Latitude: 41.56741. Longitude: -3.13385.
And there went fifty with Martin Garcia and Martin Salvadorez, and fifty with Pero Gonzalvez and Martin Munoz, and Diego Sanchez of Arlanza went with fifty, and Don Nuno, he who colonized Cubiella, and Alvar Bermudez he who colonized Osma, went with forty, and Gonzalo Munoz of Orbaneja, and Muno Ravia, and Yvanez Cornejo with sixty, and Muno Fernandez the Lord of Monteforte, and Gomez Fernandez he who colonized Pampliego with sixty; and Don Garcia de Roa and Serrazin his brother, Lord of Aza, with ninety; and Antolin Sanchez of Soria took with him forty knights who were his children or his kin:...nine hundred knights were they in all.