Anta do Vale de Sancho

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Anta do Vale de Sancho (Portugal)
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Location of the Anta do Vale de Sancho in Portugal.

The Anta do Vale de Sancho , also known under the name Anta do Vale da Estrada , 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 , Portalegre district in northeastern Alentejo .
The grave lies on the slope of a hill about 1 km west of the Ribeira de Vide , on the bank 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 east the Anta do Porto Aivado 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 Anta was published for the first time in 1975 and cataloged again in 1986 as part of a prospecting , after the plant had already been classified as IIP - Imóvel de Interest Público and placed under protection in 1997 . A further archaeological investigation of the site is still pending.

Finding

The site is badly damaged due to its hillside location and the associated erosion . Only four of the fragmented granite bearing stones ( orthostats ) are preserved in situ ; the capstone has slipped. Since the Anta served as weather protection for farm workers in later times, the spaces between the bearing stones were partially closed with masonry. Only two stones remain from the east-west corridor . So far there have been no clear indications of an overhang ( mámoa ) of the grave, but the pending excavations can correct the picture if necessary.

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 discoveries made during the 1986 prospecting.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Domingos Bucho: Anta do Vale da Estrada / Anta do Vale de Sancho . 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 Vale de Sancho . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, accessed December 27, 2019 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Anta do Vale de Sancho . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural - Portal do Arqueólogo, accessed December 27, 2019 (Portuguese).
  4. ^ Maria da Conceição Monteiro Rodrigues: Carta Arqueológica do Concelho de Castelo de Vide . Lisbon 1975, p. 277 (Portuguese).
  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; 895 kB ; accessed on December 26, 2019]).

literature

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

Coordinates: 39 ° 29 '24.3 "  N , 7 ° 26' 1.6"  W.