Dolmen da Barrosa
The megalithic complex Dólmen da Barrosa is also called Anta da Barrosa, Lapa dos Mouros or Dolmen de Gontinhães. Anta is the Portuguese name for around 5000 megalithic structures and dolmens that were built during the Neolithic in the west of the Iberian Peninsula by the successors of the cardial or imprint culture .
location
The Dólmen da Barrosa is located near the coast in the extreme north of Portugal a few meters to the right of the road that leads from Vila Praia de Âncora to Moledo in the northern border region. A Pleistocene river terrace forms the subsoil .
construction
The system has a polygonal chamber (see image in the web link). It consists of seven supporting stones on which the almost square capstone, which slopes slightly towards the corridor, rests. The corridor is not separated from the chamber in height and width , as is often the case with Antas , but the corridor supporting stones, which gradually become lower, connect to the alignment of the chamber stones without a step. Six of them have been preserved on the south side and four on the north side. The capstones overlapping like roof tiles lay on top of them. Towards the entrance the corridor tapers sharply in width. The medium to fine-grained granite used for the construction was extracted from a quarry around 500 m away.
Excavations
During F. Martin's excavations in 1879, an adze made of serpentine , a lance tip made of flint , a bell shard , a large blade, four arrowheads and a stone ax fragment were found. Three stones decorated with pecked serpentine lines were found at the excavation in 1948 at the entrance to the chamber and in the corridor. The finds are in the museums of Porto and Guimarães .
Nearby is the Cividade de Âncora .
See also
literature
- M. Cardozo: Revista de Guimarães 61 , 1951 pp. 29-36
- VMO Jorge: Megalitismo do norte de Portugal: o distrito do Porto os monumentos ea sua problemática no contexto europeu . 1982
- Philine Kalb: Megalithics on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. In: Karl W. Beinhauer et al. (Ed.): Studies on megalithics: state of research and ethnoarchaeological perspectives. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 21. 1999, 115–122. (Mannheim)
- 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 p. 57
Web links
Coordinates: 41 ° 48 ′ 36 " N , 8 ° 51 ′ 2" W.