Anta do Monte Abraão

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Anta do Monte Abraão (Portugal)
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Location of the Anta do Monte Abraão in Portugal.

The Anta do Monte Abraão is a megalithic complex in central Portugal , northwest of Lisbon in the municipality ( freguesia ) União das freguesias de Queluz e Belas in the district ( concelho ) Sintra , Lisbon district .

Anta , Mámoa , Dolmen , Orca and Lapa are thecommon namesin Portugal for the approximately 5,000 megalithic structures that were built during the Neolithic in the west of the Iberian Peninsula .

Monument preservation

The facility was discovered and archaeologically examined between 1875 and 1878 by the Portuguese geologist Carlos Ribeiro .

In 1910 the Anta was registered and protected as Monumento Nacional together with the neighboring Anta do Senhor da Serra and Anta da Estria under the name Antas de Belas .

The facility is not open to the public; however, access is possible.

Finding

Anta do Monte Abraão
Plan of the Anta do Monte Abraao

It is a polygonal passage grave , of which six upright supporting stones ( orthostats ) made of limestone in the burial chamber were found in situ . At the time of the excavation, the burial chamber with a size of 2.8 × 4 meters had already been badly damaged and had been robbed of antiquity. Only three stone slabs were left of the corridor. The corridor, oriented exactly east-west, was probably 8 m long and 2 m wide. An overhang ( Mámoa ) could not be detected in the destroyed findings, but was probably present.

Finds

Despite the robbery and destruction of the grave, the excavation yielded numerous finds, including stone axes , flint tools and blades, 120 flint arrowheads , four club heads and ceramics from the bell beaker culture . Based on the finds, an occupancy of the grave from the middle to the end of the Neolithic (last centuries of the 4th millennium BC to the middle of the 3rd millennium BC) can be made probable.

The finds are kept in the Museum des Serviços Geológicos de Portugal in Lisbon .

literature

  • A. Martins: Antas de Belas . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, accessed on January 3, 2018 (Portuguese, with extensive literature sv Bibliografia).
  • 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 , pp. 142f.
  • João Luís Cardoso and Rui Boaventura: The megalithic tombs in the region of Belas (Sintra, Portugal) and their aesthetic manifestations . In: Trabajos de Prehistoria . tape 68 , no. 2 , 2011, p. 297-312 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c A. Martins: Antas de Belas . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, accessed January 7, 2018 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b Anta do Monte Abraão . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural - Portal do Arqueólogo, accessed January 7, 2018 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ a b João Luís Cardoso and Rui Boaventura: The megalithic tombs in the region of Belas (Sintra, Portugal) and their aesthetic manifestations . In: Trabajos de Prehistoria . tape 68 , no. 2 , 2011, p. 304 ff .
  4. ↑ globato: Anta do Monte Abraão - Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Portugal in Lisboa. April 26, 2006, accessed January 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Thomas G. Schattner (ed.): Archaeological guide through Portugal (= cultural history of the ancient world. Vol. 74). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, p. 143.
  6. ^ Paula Noé: Anta de Monte Abraão. SIPA, 1991, accessed January 7, 2018 (Portuguese).


Coordinates: 38 ° 46 ′ 5.4 "  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 53"  W.