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Name      
Portugal    Beira, Mestras 3 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Circle, cup-marks, idoliforms, engravings, open-air, rock Art.
Institution: IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
Record
proposed
by
 Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal
 
Location
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Country:

 Portugal

Locality:

 Góis, Cadafaz, Mestras

Region:

 Beira

Area:

 Beira

 

 
Environment & Surface

Altitude:

780 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Localizada na Serra Amarela.

Proximity:

Geology:
Xisto.

Surface:

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Conjunto de dois painéis insculturados. O primeiro com 7 gravuras, incluindo um par de olhos e um círculo isolado com uma depressão ao meio; os restantes correspondem a gravuras idoliformes (cruz dentro de um quadrado), e o segundo com seis ou sete gravuras, de difícil interpretação.

Figures:
total number 14
Figuras idoliformes; olhos; indeterminadas.

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown

Notes:
Abstract: Mestras 3 it's a Rock art site located in Góis. Here, are represented "horseshoes", cruciforms, quadrangular or rectangular figures. Some of these figures end in appendages, and one of the motifs has been filled in full and has the shape of a "pallete".
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Portugal EuroPreArt general bibliography, by IPT TomarGeneral (country)
Specific Beira, Mestras 3 bibliography, by IPT TomarSpecific (site)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic worldwide Database (external link). Compiled by Leigh Marymor. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley Bibliographic
Rock Art
Database

 

 
Conservation        

Status:

 Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:
Estas gravuras foram destruídas no início dos anos 90, devido à construção de corta-fogos pelo viso da serra.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

 
By          

Compiler:

 Ana Catarina Freire

Institution:

 IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
 
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EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art, is a web-based archaeological project funded by the European Union which aims to establish a lasting data-base of European prehistoric art documentation, to launch the base of an European institutional network and to contribute to the awareness of the diversity and richness of European Prehistoric Art.
It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón (España), Université de Liège (Belgique), Gotland University College (Sverige), University College Dublin (Eire), Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Italia), Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art of Pinerolo (Italia), The European Centre for Prehistoric Research in the Alto Ribatejo (Portugal), ArqueoJovem - a youth NGO (Portugal).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem
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