The section in ditch 8 of Perdigões was completed this year. It has a “V” shape profile, with around 1,6 meters deep. It was filled with a ...

Around here Prehistoric enclosing is sometimes considered an easy issue. Maybe because it is approached as a Prehistoric matter of obvious a...

It was two days ago, taken from Monsaraz. I saw a sunset, my camera saw two. Perdigões is in the horizon. One? Or many?

I am now at Perdigões for a new campaign. Posts will suffer a brake. But you can fallow the excavations here:   http://perdigoes2011....

One of the outstanding monuments of the Alcalar peripheral necropolis. One of the particularities of large ditched enclosures in south...

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...