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Locality: |
Serradilla, Sierra Santa Catalina, Portilla del Boquerón.Southern Slope |
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Extremadura/Cáceres |
Area: |
Monfragüe's Natural Park. |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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410 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Monfragüe is a massif mountains complex, crossed E-W by Tajo River, where we can find hills, mounts crown with sierras (max. hight....), several water courses and streams commonlly running through narrow valleys. Narrow passes and breaches along the Sierras remain as ancient pastural routes to northern and southern plain valleys. General flora corresponds to Mediterranean wood with bushy trees, mainly cistus, and autoctonal trees like ilex, cork tree. Nowadays we find also exogene spices like olive trees and euchaliptus product of agricultural use of some areas of the Park. Sierra Santa Catalina is the alignment placed on the North-eastern vertice of Monfragüe, land sourrounding is pasture woodland, cultivated land with olive trees and used for forestry. Vegetation includes bushy trees like brooms and cistus and trees like ilex and cork trees mostly. Portilla del Boquerón is a narrow corridor pass between two high blocks of rock outcrop at Sierra Santa Catalina's western zone. Art Sites are located on the western face wall, denominated De Paqui, 037, on top, and Boquerón, 038, in the middle slope. This Shelter, 8.20 m high, it's 5.10m deep and its oppening, arround 4 m long, faces East. Left wall face is containing two groups of representations. |
Proximity: |
I would like to say how far is the river, in which direction and which is the visibility from the site. Besides the closeness of any traditional pastural route. Near the path that surrounds this hill alignment, sights dominate not very far. Other shelters close are, De paqui 37, right on top of it, La Poltrona 34, a few meters east, .... Puede que la Portilla del Boquerón sea paso tradicional de ganado, o sea, Natural pass for herd routes. |
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Geology: |
Quartzite |
Surface: |
Orangy red surface quite smooth and flat. Though the shelter is deep and walls surface is well conditioned representations are only placed near the oppening on the left wall. Deepest ones are 1.50 m inside, the others are almost in open air at the oppening 2 m. high. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 8.20 m.
Width 4.00 m.
Depth 5.10 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
First motif, 1.50m inside, an oval figure traced just with a line containing small dots in the inside thin traced (0.2-0.4 cm diam.) with a thin traced (0.5 cm) right line added on its lower part. Red pigment is pale on this complex 7 cm long and 4 cm max. wide. The second representations group, moving outside the shelter, placed 2 m high, are: one circular petrogliph figure, thickly traced (1.4 cm) and 11 cm long - 10 cm wide, which still shows its original red pigmentation in excellent state of conservation; on the right, two thick motives, finger spot (1.5 cm-1 cm.) and finger dot (1 cm diam.), also red and well preserved.
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Figures: |
total number 4
1 indeterminate oval composition filled with dots, Circular petrogliph figure, 2 finger spots.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
Schematic art in the Iberian Peninsule is a style developed from VI to I milenium A.C., Absolute data can´t be given.
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Notes: |
Exceptional example of remaining pigment. General paintings found do not show pigment remainings. Reference to colour is related to the fosil negative printed on the rock surface when not specified pigment. When pig,ent is found analysis about the composition of red pigments shous mineral procedence from ferric oxidus present on the composition and also present on the mineral enviroment of the site. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
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Intervention: |
Three recording campaigns (1997,98,99) have taken place at Monfragüe, covering most of its sierras and stream breachs, in order to record all schematic art sites. The works, not finished, had given a number of 209 shelter with art, and the record consist in digitalizated tracings, pictures and descriptions that are also being compiled in several unpublished volumes. Monfragüe is a Natural Park where no human intervention is nowadays allowed, neither the presence of people near most of the art sites. The latter means the art is strictly preserved of any anthropical action wether it is damage or conservation works. |
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| Record n. 150 / 807 |
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It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal),
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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),
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