Anta da Várzea dos Mourões

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Anta da Várzea dos Mourões (Portugal)
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Location of the Anta da Várzea dos Mourões in Portugal.

The Anta da Várzea dos Mourões is a megalithic complex about 7 km north of Castelo de Vide on the left bank of the Ribeira de São João , in the municipality ( Portuguese Freguesia ) Santiago Maior in the district ( Portuguese Concelho ) Castelo de Vide, Portalegre district in the northeast Alentejo . Almost 400 m to the northwest, also on the left bank of the Ribeira de São João , is the Anta do Cerejeiro .

Anta , Mámoa , Dolmen , Orca and Lapa are the common names in Portugal for the approximately 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 .

Monument preservation

In 1868 the complex was excavated and published by Pereira da Costa and registered and protected as a Monumento Nacional in 1910 . In 2003, the municipality of Castelo de Vide carried out restoration work after a building that used part of the Anta was demolished between 1990 and 1997.

Finding

Today the site is badly destroyed. Three of the granite bearing stones ( orthostats ) fell into the burial chamber . Other parts of the Anta were carelessly cleared aside when the former building was demolished.

The complex was built without a corridor and only a few traces of the former hilltop ( mámoa ) of the grave have survived .

Despite the poor preservation, the Anta can be dated to the period from the end of the Neolithic to the Copper Age (3500–2000 BC).

Finds

No information is available about any finds from the excavation from the end of the 19th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rosário Gordalina: Anta da Várzea dos Mourões . Direção – Geral do Património Cultural - Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico, 1991, accessed on December 11, 2019 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Francisco A. Pereira da Costa: Noções sobre o estado préhistórico da terra e do homem seguidas da descripção de alguns dolmins ou antas de Portugal . Lisbon 1868, p. 90 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Decreto de 16-06-1910. (pdf) In: DG, n.º 136, de 23-06-1910. June 23, 1910, p. 2163 , accessed December 11, 2019 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ a b c d Anta da Várzea dos Mourões . Direção – Geral do Património Cultural - Portal do Arqueólogo, accessed on December 11, 2019 (Portuguese).
  5. ^ A. Martins: Anta da Várzea dos Mourões . Direção – Geral do Património Cultural, accessed December 11, 2019 (Portuguese).

literature

  • A. Martins: Anta da Várzea dos Mourões . Direção – Geral do Património Cultural, accessed on December 11, 2019 (Portuguese, with extensive literature sv Bibliografia).

Coordinates: 39 ° 29 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 6.9 ″  W.