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Portugal    Trás-os-Montes, Madorras, Mamoa 1 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Circles, paintings, engravings, Megalithism, Granite
Institution: IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
Record
proposed
by
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal
 
Location
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Country:

Portugal

Locality:

Vila Real, Sabrosa, S. Lourenço de Ribapinhão; Lugar da Arcã

Region:

Trás-os-Montes

Area:

Trás-os-Montes

 

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Aspecto do monumento no final dos trabalhos (GONÇALVES, A.A. et al. ;1994)
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Copyright. No commercial use of EuroPreArt content is allowed. Specific © for pictures and drawings is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution.
Disclaim. The EuroPreArt project fully endorses the most recent documentation policies. It must be outlined the absolute forbidding of any disruptive method and the necessity of a total respect for archaeological sites. It is also to be noticed that no substances shall be applied to rock art for recording purposes. Some pictures of the EuroPreArt records are related to past recording techniques and may not fully match these policies. They are an historical documentation. Please refer to local archaeological official authorities for any recording purpose. Please take a look also over EuroPreArt guidelines.
 
Environment & Surface

Altitude:

845 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
O monumento constitui um dos pontos de cota mais elevada da parte setentrional de um extensa chã, designada localmente "serra" de Arcã, iniciada alguns quilómetros mais a norte junto à serra de Falperra.

Proximity:

Para oeste, num vale largo e aplanado corre a ribeira da Ponte da Corva que coincide com a linha de delimitação dos concelhos de sabrosa e Vila Real.

Geology:

Granito

Surface:

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
As gravuras são muito pouco profundas, medindo entre 15 a 20 mm de largura; os traços pintados têm 15 mm de largura, com excepção das linhas que segmentam o corpo inferior da figura "compósita", cujo a largura se situa entre os 5 e os 10 mm.

Figures:
total number 19
Círculos; Figura cruciforme com apêndices curvos na extremidade superior; Representação labiríntica; Dois traços desiguais, levemente curvos, centrípetos, formando um espécie de "V"; Duas figuras pintadas a preto (uma alongada, disposta verticalmente formada por três corpos sobrepostos, dois deles segmentados interiormente no sentido vertical, na sua parte inferior observa-se um possível apêndice linear, partindo da parte média da linha basal. A outra encontra-se à direita desta encontrando-se em muito mal estado não sendo possível por isso extrair uma leitura.).; Figura cruciforme com sulcos profundos de secção em "V".

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
Construção pertencente à transição do VI para V milénio BP ou nos inícios deste ultimo. Avaliação relativa baseada nos resultados da escavação (tipologia arquitectónica, espólio, iconografia, integração no contexto regional e inter-regional, etc.

Notes:

Madorras- Topónimo muito usado na zona de Trás-os-Montes para designar este tipo de sepulcro colectivo. Trabalhos de Campo realizados por: A.A. Huet de B. Gonçalves e Domingos J. da Cruz no período de 1983 a 1988.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Portugal EuroPreArt general bibliography, by IPT TomarGeneral (country)
Specific Trás-os-Montes, Madorras, Mamoa 1 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:

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

 

By          

Compiler:

Artur Jaime Duarte

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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