Anta do Porto Aivado

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Anta do Porto Aivado (Portugal)
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Location of the Anta do Porto Aivado in Portugal.

The Anta do Porto Aivado , also known under the name Anta do Porto Alvado , is a megalithic complex a good 9 km north of Castelo de Vide , in the municipality ( Portuguese Freguesia ) Santa Maria da Devesa in the district ( Portuguese Concelho ) Castelo de Vide , District Portalegre in the northeast Alentejo .
The grave is on the top of a hill about 300 m east of the Ribeira de Vide , on the banks of which about 1.5 km - 2 km south also the Anta do Cerejeiro and the Anta da Várzea dos Mourões and about 1.4 km west the Anta do Vale de Sancho were built.

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

The system was described by Georg and Vera Leisner in 1959 and cataloged again in 1986 as part of a prospecting . In 1988 and 1989 the first archaeological investigations of the site took place under the direction of Jorge Manuel Pestana Forte de Oliveira . In 1997 the Anta was classified as IIP - Imóvel de Interest Público and placed under protection.

Finding

The site is largely destroyed today. Only three heavily fragmented granite bearing stones ( orthostats ) of the elongated polygonal burial chamber are preserved in situ . So far there have been no clear indications of a corridor or a hill ( mámoa ) of the grave.

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 1988 to 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Domingos Bucho: Anta do Porto Aivado / Anta do Porto Alvado . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural - Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico, 1998, accessed December 27, 2019 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b A. Martins: Anta do Porto Aivado . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, accessed December 27, 2019 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Anta do Porto Aivado . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural - Portal do Arqueólogo, accessed December 27, 2019 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Georg Leisner and Vera Leisner : The megalithic tombs of the Iberian Peninsula. The west . In: Madrid Research . tape  1 , no. 2 . Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1959.
  5. ↑ Decree n.º 67/97 (= Ministério da Cultura [Ed.]: Diário da República, I Série . Band  I , n.º 301). December 31, 1997, p. 6896 (Portuguese, dre.pt [PDF; accessed December 26, 2019]).

literature

  • A. Martins: Anta do Porto Aivado . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, accessed on December 27, 2019 (Portuguese, with extensive literature sv Bibliografia).


Coordinates: 39 ° 29 '11.9 "  N , 7 ° 25' 5.7"  W.