When we are “prospecting” in Google Earth it is easy to inadvertently cross the border. That happened recently to Tiago and he just bumped ...

Today is the Summer solstice. The inner enclosure of Santa Vitória is one of the Portuguese ditched enclosures that had the gate (...

Cromlech of Almendres, near Évora There are several parallels that can be established between ditched enclosures and cromlechs in Sou...

It is not a proper museum. Is more like a small exhibition that function as an interpretation centre. It opened in 2004, in the medieval to...

Here is a plan and a section of Outeiro Alto 2. A paper about this site, just dated from the third quarter of the 3rd millennium BC,   is b...

Sometimes it is not easy to understand the options of prehistoric people. In fact I would say that is not just sometimes. But that depends o...

Gates (or doors) are extraordinary important in any architecture or space organization. Being a building (with gates or doors), being a lan...

Castro de Santiago walled enclosure was the first site I excavated in Fornos de Algodres, from 1988 to 1996 and in 2006. As Fraga da Pena,...

These are the posters referring Fraga da Pena presented at the small museum of archaeology in Fornos de Algodres, the municipality of...

Porto Torrão ditched enclosure. Exacavation of ERA Arqueologia in 2002 (Valera & Filipe, 2004) This is an issue present in ever...

Bell Beaker from ditch 2 of Porto Torrão. This is an interesting relation to analyze. At the moment the situation is the following o...

Today this blog reaches the age of two years. And here is, to commemorate, a possible new ditch enclosure (seen in two different worked s...

Olelas plan, after Gonçalves, 1997. Location: Sintra municipality, Lisbon, Estremadura, Central Portugal. Chronology: Chalcolithic ...

Location: Mourão municipality, Évora district, Alentejo, South Portugal. Chronology: Chalcolithic Bibliographic references: Valera...

This is a detail of the magnetogram of Perdigões enclosure, focused on Sector I, located in an intermediate area of the site, with the ...

Here are some ditch sections from Portuguese enclosures. Diversity is the word. Diversity of shapes and of sizes. Even in the same site. ...

That seems to be a significant difference between walled and ditched enclosures in Portugal. Tor in the top of a hill used to buil...

To show an image of a Middle Neolithic ditch that was sampled for pollen analysis. It belongs to a phase of occupation that was dated t...

Location: Arronches municipality, Portalegre district, South Portugal) Chronology: Chalcolithic  (and Neolithic ?) Bibliographic refere...

Another "flower" ditched enclosure in Alentejo. It is spring after all.

In the last few months, in the context of the NIA’s project “Plans of ditched enclosures and Neolithic cosmologies: an approach through la...

The huge tor of Fraga da Pena used to built a double enclosure in the late third millennium BC. Here seen from the valley. The approa...