期刊名称：Portugália: Revista do Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património da FLUP
印刷版ISSN：0871-4290
出版年度：2021
卷号：42
语种：Portuguese
出版社：Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património da Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto (FLUP)
摘要：We bring to light the discovery of a new tall menhir, currently laid on the ground, away from itsprimitive erection site, in Vale de Naçarães, southwest Fontelo village (Armamar, Viseu) allowingsome considerations. It is a monolith sculpted with local granitic rock, subcylindrically shaped,but presenting pointed extremities, measuring 5.32 m long and 1.18 m in maximum width. Theexposed surface shows three engraved cup-marks, one near the top and two paired on the mesialvolume, as well as at the central area four large pecked concentric circles, containing on its insidea fifth circle, smaller and not centred with the larger ones. Other cup-marks were detected, but allthe engravings are much eroded and were possibly made when the menhir was already down. Thiskind of monuments was probably built in the 5th millennium B.C., when the first passage gravesappear in the region. The large dimensions of this monolith, when erected allowed his viewing froma far distance thus ordaining the surrounding space. The authors propose that this menhir to be reerectedand signalised through explanatory board on his historical and archaeological importance.
