Ditch section of Pé da Erra, showing a clear recut.
An old site has revealed itself as a ditched
enclosure in recent excavation of the UNIARCH team. It is Pé da Erra, near Coruche, known since the seventies of the
last century. We still do not have specific information about the new findings.
But the simple fact that there is a ditch enclosure is significant, because this is
a peripheral area to the actual concentration of ditched enclosure in
Alentejo’s hinterland. It is a confirmation of what I argued some time ago, that
this kind of contexts would start to appear in other areas of the country (in
this case in the Sorraia valley, a tributary of the Tagus river), even if they
don´t show the same concentration of sites. Things appear when the times are ready
for them.
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