Tholos of Tituária
Coordinates: 38 ° 56 '30.4 " N , 9 ° 12' 28.2" W.
The Tholos of Tituária is located near the village of the same name, on a hill north of Lisbon east of Mafra near the A8 motorway , on the road to Milharado in Portugal . The Tholos ( Portuguese tolo ) was discovered and excavated in the 1970s; a detailed publication is pending. The finds are in the Museum of the Serviços Geológicos in Lisbon . The oval, northwest-southeast oriented chamber consists of 17 blocks of different sizes. The only partially preserved passage has seven larger stones.
The chamber indicated three phases of occupancy.
- The oldest phase, from the time the complex was built in the Neolithic ; the remains of which had been cleared away
- to make room for burials from the Zambujal period (beginning of the Copper Age - around 3000 BC)
- a final layer from the Bell Beaker period , with individual graves surrounded by stone blocks, from which u. a. Gold finds were recovered.
literature
- JL Cardoso et al: “O monumento Pré-Histórico de Tituaria, Moinhos da Casela (Mafra)”. Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras 6, 1998 pp. 135-193.
- 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. 136