Castro de Pedrário

The castro of Pedrário is situated on a prominent elevation that dominates a large area north to the foothills of the Larouco. Covers even part of the Valley of the river which flows to the North, Assureira since Solveira the Vilar de Perdizes.
It stands at an altitude of about 1,000 meters, with an area of about 300 square meters and is located in the vicinity of the place of Pedrário, who gave him the name.
Built during the iron age, the settlement was masterminded by a complex system of fortifications, particularly by two lines of wall, about 2\/3 meters thick, has double wall filled inside with stonelike material of small size. The walls, currently in tip partial, connect the two extremes, with granite OS\/NE orientation and were reinforced by a third wall of the West and East sides. In the intra mural are visible traces of plant structures predominantly circular, inherent in this type of proto-historic villages. Archaeological interventions conducted in this diverse estate arqueossítio allowed collect essentially consisting of potsherds and manual turned attributable to the iron age, as well as some traces of bronze and iron slag.