Menhir da Oliveirinha

The Menhir da Oliveirinha is located southeast of the Monte da Oliveirinha hill, on the east side next to the road to Igrejinha, north of Évora . The phallic menhir of granite is 600 meters after the junction of the road to Graça do Divor in the Alentejo in Portugal .

It is very large with a diameter of 0.6 m and a height of 5.3 m and the largest menhir in the Évora district . It fell over and is on a small hill with a trigonometric point 250 m away . A hole is engraved at the tip of the menhir that looks like the end of a urethra and underlines the phallic classification. There is a crack and various notches caused by farmers appear on the monument. The menhir is expected to be erected again soon, although it is not known where it originally stood.

See also

• Megaliths in the Évora district
• Menhirs in Portugal

literature

• Ana Palma dos Santos: Monumentos megalíticos do Alto Alentejo . Lisbon 1994, ISBN 972-918416-X .
• 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. 162

Web links

• Brief description (Portuguese) and picture
• Short description, photos, location (English)

Coordinates: 38 ° 39 ′ 10.3 "  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 57.4"  W.