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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tholos do Monge
Country: Portugal Distrito: Lisboa Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Sintra
Latitude: 38.774224N  Longitude: 9.44136W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Piotrekszw visited on 28th Mar 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 The site has been cleared off the ivy and other plants. It's in a good overall shape, although the chamber has collapsed long time ago. You can easily spot the place by the high geodetic marker and signs from the trail. It's worth visit, especially because it is surrounded with rocky hills and beautiful mysterious forests. I am sure there are much more megalithic sites and wonderful rock formations hidden in the area.

Bak_teria visited on 23rd Aug 2014 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4

Ana visited on 23rd Aug 2014 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.33 Ambience: 2.67 Access: 3.67

Tholos do Monge
Tholos do Monge submitted by Bak_teria : There's no indications to get you to the site. I parked my car near by a sign that leads to Capuchos Convent (38.779982, -9.434325) then we went West by foot through a dirt road, when we got to a intersection we followed South 'till we get to a memorial very easy to identify - in the top of a pile of stones there's a big cross- we continued south and finally entered in a footpath in the middle of ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Tomb in Estremadura and Tejo Valley

Identified and excavated in 1878 by C. Ribeiro, the "Tholos do Monge" lies alone atop one of the highest elevations of the Sierra de Sintra. Is a mass grave built in the Chalcolithic period (2300 BC / 2000 BC) in a time that the defensive systems of some villages were reinforced and fortified at Extremadura ridge. It was subsequently reused in the Late Bronze Age (1800/800 BC).

The grave is oriented north and was built taking advantage of a natural depression in the granite. The site consists of a subcircular chamber with about fifteen feet in maximum diameter and erected walls with slabs of different sizes placed horizontally with about two feet tall, covered in fake dome skylight type. Today remains almost exclusively the structuring elements of the burial chamber. The site originally had exterior corridor and lobby.

The excavation of this Tholos revealed common Chalcolithic ceramic and sílexes currently exhibited in the Museum of the Geological Survey of Portugal.
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Tholos do Monge
Tholos do Monge submitted by Bak_teria : As you can see by this picture the plants and the trees have taken over the place. The Tholos is almost imperceptible. It's situated near by a geodetic marker at the top of Sintra's Hill. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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