Anta da Santa Marta
The Anta da Santa Marta (also called Dólmen da Portela or Forno dos Mouros ) is one of the most famous Portuguese megalithic complexes . It is located east of Porto in the district of the same name in northern Portugal. Anta or dolmen is the Portuguese name for around 5000 megalithic structures that were built during the Neolithic in the west of the Iberian Peninsula by the successors of the cardial or imprint culture .
The Anta is, from Santa Marta , on the other side of the national road 15 and the Rio Cavalum , at the place Portela , on a small hill. The hill diameter is about 27.0 m. The long-chambered Anta Santa Marta has a polygonal chamber (3.3 × 2.1 m), which consists of seven side stones, one of which has overturned. Of the side stones, three with an almost flat underside are bearing stones of the capstone, which was split into two parts and put back together on the underside. Inside there are faint references to red drawings. A non-detached passage opens into the chamber. Ten pairs of bearing stones are still visible from the originally longer 2.5 m wide corridor facing east. The complex was built in the 3rd millennium BC. Built in BC.
Anta da Santa Marta has been a listed building since 1910. The complex fell victim to an act of vandalism in the late 1980s, in which the strikingly shaped capstone, which has now been restored, was smashed.
The dolmen is represented in the coat of arms of Santa Marta.
literature
- Thomas G. Schattner (Ed.): Archaeological guide through Portugal (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 74). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2313-1 .
- VMO Jorge: Megalitismo do norte de Portugal . o distrito do Porto os monuments ea sua problemática no contexto europeu. 1982.
- Philine Kalb: Megalithics on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa . In: Karl W. Beinhauer et al. (Ed.): Studies on megalithics: Research status and ethnoarchaeological perspectives . Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. tape 21 . Mannheim 1999, p. 115-122 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 12 '24.6 " N , 8 ° 15' 15.3" W.