<< Text Pages >> Mamoa de Donai - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Portugal in Bragança
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mamoa de Donai Alternative Name: Mamoa de Tumbeirinho, Devesa de DonaiCountry: Portugal
NOTE: This site is 13.913 km away from the location you searched for.
Distrito: Bragança Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Bragança Nearest Village: Donai
Latitude: 41.832831N Longitude: 6.806681W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Megalithic monument in North Portugal
Distrito de Bragança, area of Donai
More information at IGESPAR. Auto translation: Classified in 1951 as "Property of Public Interest", by proposal of the well-known Vimarenian investigator, Coronel Mário Cardozo, "Mamoa de Donai" (or "Mamoa de Tumbeirinho", as it is popularly known), stands in Place of Devesa, in the vicinity of the town of Donai, who gave him his name.
Excavated at the end of the 19th century, José Henriques Pinheiro was responsible for the excavation, and was personally subsidized by the well-known nineteenth-century researcher Francisco Martins de GM Sarmento (1833-1899). This megalithic monument, chronologically attributed to the Neo-Chalcolithic, , which is why they seem to remain only a few uncharacteristic elements, among which a portion of the primitive mamoa - or tumulus- which covered the funeral chamber in question, associated with a possible small corridor.
As far as the estate found in the place, still in century XIX, were collected, among other artifacts, four axes of polished stone, a gouge and three blades of flint, most of which presently exhibited in the Museum of the Society Martins Sarmento, in Guimarães, who acquired them as early as 1891.
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