This is a projection of the drawing of the gate
detected in ditch10 at Perdigões. It is a large gate (about 7 meters wide) and
it is located in the west side of the enclosure. Due to the topography of the
natural theater where the site is, a person entering in the enclosure through
this gate would have in front, as a stage, the megalithic landscape of
Reguengos de Monsaraz, with the hill of Monsaraz in the horizon. But if that
person was going in the opposite direction, and at the late afternoon, then the
horizon would be the limits of the natural basin and he would have the setting
sun in his eyes.
At Perdigões, gates are more than simple passages.
Their location generates meaningful perspectives of the landscape.
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