0449 - Perdigões Timber Circle

Esta é uma proposta de reconstituição preliminar do Timber Circle no centro dos recintos de fossos dos Perdigões publicada na National Geographic História (ilustração de Luís Taklim). Datado de entre 2800-2600 a.C., é uma estrutura até ao momento única na Península Ibérica e que parece enquadrar-se na tradição de construção de estruturas cerimoniais em madeira da Europa Central e das Ilhas Britânicas. A sua escavação está ainda em curso.

This is the proposal for a preliminary reconstitution of the Timber Circle in the center of the Perdigões ditched enclosures published in National Geographic História (illustration by Luís Taklim). Dating back to between 2800-2600 BC, it is a unique structure on the Iberian Peninsula and seems to fit in with the tradition of building ceremonial wooden structures in Central Europe and the British Isles. Its excavation is still ongoing.

0437 - Fraga da Pena: a cerimonial place.

Fraga da Pena. A small enclosure built against a granitic tor, in order to condition the access to a passage (truly megalithic) to the other side of the fraga, where one reaches an authentic altar over the deep valley and with a wide view over the landscape. And it constitutes a stage for those who are higher up the slope. A scenario that inspires sacredness and is conducive to ceremonial practices, which the archeological contexts involved also suggest.