Location: Vidigueira municipality, Beja
district, South Portugal)
Chronology: Unknown
Bibliographic references: Unpublished.
Discovered on Bing Maps!
Apparently Google Earth is not the only tool to find new enclosures.
This one appears to be circular
in shape, with a lobule heading southwest, resembling another enclosure, namely
Outeiro Alto 2 (Valera & Filipe,2010; Valera et alli, 2013), although Outeiro Alto’s faces southeast.
Measuring approximately 77 meters maximum
diameter, it seems to be a double enclosure – the inner ditch measuring approximately
20 meters diameter.
It is interesting to notice the
fact that the site is located at about 500 meters from the well-known
pre-historic site of Mangancha (Gonçalves, 1994).
References:
GONÇALVES, V.S. (1994) - Distrito de Beja, Vidigueira : Monte da Mangancha. Informação Arqueológica. nº 9 (1994). p. 109-110
GONÇALVES, V.S. (1994) - Distrito de Beja, Vidigueira : Monte da Mangancha. Informação Arqueológica. nº 9 (1994). p. 109-110
VALERA, A.C.; FILIPE, V. (2010) – O
Outeiro Alto 2 (Brinches, Serpa): Nota Preliminar sobre um Espaço Funerário e
de Socialização do Neolítico à Idade do
Bronze. Apontamentos
de Arqueologia e Património.nº5
(2010). p. 49-56
VALERA, A.C.; FILIPE, V.; CABAÇO, N.
(2013) - O Recinto de Fosso de Outeiro Alto 2
(Brinches, Serpa). Apontamentos de
Arqueologia e Património.nº9 (2013). p. 21-35
By Rui Godinho
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