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Name      
Portugal    Beira Alta, Vale de Maria Pais EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Cup-marks, sun, circle, engravings Megalithism
Institution: IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
Record
proposed
by
 Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal
 
Location
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Country:

 Portugal

Locality:

 Viseu, Penedono, Antas,

Region:

 Beira Alta

Area:

 Beira Alta

 

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Menir do Vale da Maria Pais após aplicação de bicromático (CARVALHO,P.M.S. et al. 1994)
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:

825 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
O monumento implanta-se quase no limite oeste de uma área de amplo vale, alimentada por diversas linhas de água que correm para o rio Torto, afluente do rio Douro, à altitude aproximada de 825 m, aproveitando os últimos contrafortes da serra do Medonho. Encontrando -se a paisagem em redor do monumento profundamente humanizada

Proximity:

 Junto à estrada E.N.229, entre os km 24 e 25, distando cerca de 75 m/SO. Do antigo campo de futebol, perto da vila do Penedono. No Vale de Maria Pais, na periferia oeste da "Quinta dos Carvalhais".

Geology:
Granito

Surface:

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Covinhas; Representação Solar; Grande cova central, absolutamente regular e alisada , delimitada por um círculo, entre a cavidade e o circulo existe um rebordo convexo em alto relevo. A figura em volta do rebordo foi feita a partir do rebaixamento da superfície do bloco megalítico

Figures:
total number 10
Covinhas; Representação Solar; Grande cova central, absolutamente regular e alisada , delimitada por um círculo, entre a cavidade e o circulo existe um rebordo convexo em alto relevo.

Chronology:

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

Notes:
O menir foi encontrado pelo proprietário da "Quinta dos Carvalhais", quando o "atropelou" com um retroescavadora. Tendo removido-o local original. O "atropelamento" do menir deixou as suas cicatrizes.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Portugal EuroPreArt general bibliography, by IPT TomarGeneral (country)
Specific Beira Alta, Vale de Maria Pais 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:
O menir encontra-se partido, o fragmento encontrado mede 3 m de altura, variando a sua largura entre os 0,70 e 1 metro, estimando-se que o seu tamanho original ronda-se os 5-6 m de altura.

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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