Anta de Melriça

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Location of the Anta de Melriça in Portugal.

The Anta de Melriça , also called Anta de Melriço , Anta da Fonte das Mulheres or Anta das Mulheres , is a megalithic complex about 4 km northwest of Castelo de Vide , in the municipality ( Portuguese Freguesia ) Santiago Maior in the district ( Portuguese Concelho ) Castelo de Vide , Portalegre District in northeast Alentejo .

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

1867–1868, the complex was excavated and published by Pereira da Costa ; In 1986 the municipality of Castelo de Vide carried out minor restoration work.

The megalithic tomb was registered and protected as a Monumento Nacional in 1910 .

Finding

The polygonal burial chamber with a diameter of up to 3.5 m was formed by seven bearing stones ( orthostats ) made of granite and is closed with a triangular capstone. Three of the former seven approximately 3 m high bearing stones were still found in situ , the others have been largely destroyed.

The complex was built without a corridor and the former hill ( mámoa ) of the grave has hardly been preserved. Concentrations of granite stones of various sizes in the area of ​​the former Mamoa give room to assume that this could have been a cairn- type overhang .

On the basis of its architectural features, the Anta is 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 Rosário Gordalina: Anta de Melriça / Anta de Melriço / Anta das Mulheres . Direção – Geral do Património Cultural - Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico, 1991, accessed on December 10, 2019 (Portuguese).
  2. a b Archaeological guide through Portugal . In: Thomas G. Schattner (Ed.): Cultural history of the ancient world . tape  74 . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2313-1 , p. 115 .
  3. 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. 100 (Portuguese).
  4. a b c d Anta de Melriça . Direção – Geral do Património Cultural - Portal do Arqueólogo, accessed December 10, 2019 (Portuguese).
  5. Decreto de 16-06-1910. (pdf) In: DG, n.º 136, de 23-06-1910. June 23, 1910, p. 2163 , accessed December 10, 2019 (Portuguese).
  6. ^ A. Martins: Anta de Melriço . Direção – Geral do Património Cultural, accessed December 10, 2019 (Portuguese).

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Coordinates: 39 ° 25 '59.2 "  N , 7 ° 30' 6.7"  W.