Cistas da Portela do Gorgulão

Set of two monuments that are believed to have been graves for adults, of which there is only the second. The first monument was an individual grave, CIST-type, built with slabs of local granite, with an approximate height of 0.50 meters and 1.5 meters in length. She was found in March 1931 when it carried out farm work on-site, owned three ceramic vases, fragmented at the time of the finding. Currently, no longer exists. The second the Gorgulão CIST was found in 1994, when the construction of the current accommodation "Cista", containing only a ceramic vase. Lateral slabs has approximately 2.27 meters long and one was fractured. The two slabs that eucalyptus forests are irregularly-shaped tomb and is about 0.90 meters long by 1.06 meters wide. The monument was placed at about 20 meters from its original location, in a residential garden.

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Gorgulão
5470,Vila da Ponte

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