Anta do Senhor da Serra

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Anta do Senhor da Serra (Portugal)
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Location of the Anta do Senhor da Serra in Portugal.

The Anta do Senhor da Serra , also known under the name Pedra dos Mouros , 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 in 1856 by the Portuguese geologist Carlos Ribeiro and archaeologically examined 20 years later in 1867. In 1910 the Anta was registered and protected as a Monumento Nacional together with the neighboring Anta do Monte Abraão and Anta da Estria under the name Antas de Belas .

The site, which was destroyed at the time of the excavation except for three large bearing stones ( orthostats ), was only inadequately protected even after it was entered in the list of monuments. In 2010 one of the three stones broke into several pieces. The facility is not open to the public; access is hardly possible due to the surrounding buildings.

Finding

Anta do Senhor da Serra (2019).

The three limestone bearing stones ( orthostats ) found during the excavation and four other fragments formerly formed a polygonal burial chamber about 5 meters in diameter. A corridor could not be detected in the heavily damaged findings, but there are indications that the grave was overgrown ( Mámoa ).

Outstanding find, however, were two anthropomorphic rock engravings on the bearing stone "C", which show two schematic representations of people, presumably man and woman.

Finds

Due to the robbery and destruction of the grave, the excavation yielded only a few finds, including a stone ax and flint tools . 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 3, 2018 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Pedra dos Mouros / Senhor da Serra . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural - Portal do Arqueólogo, accessed January 3, 2018 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ a b globato: Anta do Senhor da Serra - Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Portugal in Lisboa. SIPA, February 9, 2015, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Thomas G. Schattner (ed.): Archaeological guide through Portugal (= cultural history of the ancient world. Vol. 74). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, pp. 142f.
  5. ^ Paula Noé: Anta de Monte Abraão. SIPA, 1991, accessed January 3, 2018 (Portuguese).


Coordinates: 38 ° 46 ′ 23 ″  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 0.1 ″  W.