Outeiro Alto 2
Outeiro Alto 2 is a small Copper Age enclosure in Serpa in the Beja district in the Alentejo in Portugal .
The structure, defined by a wave-shaped ditch with six bulges, has the same design as “Santa Vitória” and a similar one to “Xancra”, where it forms an approximately concentric three-ditch system. The undulating ditch forms a series of semicircular bays with a diameter of about 25 meters and an access that is oriented roughly towards the winter solstice. Systems of this type are found particularly in the Alentejo.
The enclosure is at the eastern end of a small hill. At the western end there was possibly a wooden henge surrounded by three late Neolithic hypogea . In between there is a Bronze Age necropolis made of pits and anthropomorphic hypogea. The pits dug in the area of the enclosure provided a late Neolithic context.
literature
- Carolina Grilo: O povoado pré-histórico do Alto do Outeiro, Baleizão, Beja. Vipasca, Nº 2, II Série 2007, pp. 95-106.
- Victor Filipe, Ricardo Godinho, Raquel Granja, Artur Ribeiro, António Carlos Valera: Bronze Age funerary spaces in Outeiro Alto 2 (Brinches, Serpa, Portugal): the hypogea cemetery. In: Zephyrus, Revista de Prehistoria y Arqueologia, Volume 71, 2013, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, ISSN 0514-7336 , pp. 107–129 ( PDF , 6.6 MB).
Web links
- Outeiro Alto 2 , sketch and picture
- A wood henge at Outeiro Alto , description, sketches
- Wood constructions , description, photos