It certainly looks so. This is the latest new ditched enclosure and was
once more detected in Google Earth (by Tiago), in the context of our project of
systematic quest for these kind of sites in Alentejo region.
Like Xancra, this new site seems to have well
patterned sinuous ditches, probably three concentric ones. It was named Monte
da Contenda and is just 4,5 km from Santa Vitória, another sinuous patterned
ditched enclosure quite similar to Xancra. The narrow spatial proximity of some
ditched enclosures starts to be an important issue for interpretation.
Obtaining absolute chronologies is becoming more and more urgent to determine
where these sites lived at the same time or not. Either situation is of most
interest for comprehending the ditched enclosures phenomena.
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