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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Castro de Melgaço ou Castro da Cividade de Paderne Alternative Name: Castro da Cividade de Paderne
Country: Portugal
NOTE: This site is 1.618 km away from the location you searched for.
Distrito: Viana do Castelo Type: Castro or Chafurdão
Nearest Town: Melgaço  Nearest Village: Paderne
Latitude: 42.086000N  Longitude: 8.278W
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
 no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data 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.
 no data 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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Castro in North Portugal

Castro de Melgaço ou Castro da Cividade de Paderne is a Castro in the community of Paderne near the town of Melgaço, District of Viana do Castelo
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Re: Castro de Melgaço ou Castro da Cividade de Paderne by Alta-Falisa on Monday, 31 March 2014
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De Profundis Clamavit. A few questions asked by a desolate contributor, hard at work, eager to be precise and concise : 1.- Is this page meant to document the Mosterio de Paderne, on the Caminho de Santiago de Compostela ??? 2.- In general, what is the point of mentioning sites with such an accuracy : Condition: no data Ambience: no data Access: no data Accuracy: 2 ? 3.- Shouldn't a list of all those green castros posted in a forum be a more appropriate place, a list on which anybody with solid documentation could work ?
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    Re: Castro de Melgaço ou Castro da Cividade de Paderne by Andy B on Monday, 31 March 2014
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    I am sure TheCaptain will come back to us with more specifics but the general aim of plotting sites on our map like this is to get basic information 'out there' in a visual and accessible form to encourage further contributions and increased accuracy to be determined. As you say the accuracy is indicated as 'Nearest Village' only. This initial data is intended to form the framework for further research on the ground, in books, papers and online.

    Do not feel desolate - we have carried out this process in other regions and countries in the past and have found that it works. Over several years the site data will be refined into an accurate record, with descriptions and images. It is a collaborative effort so many thanks for your assistance. When more 'concrete' data is posted the 'owner' of the page (submitted by) will be changed from TheCaptain to reflect the submitter of the new information and other contributors will also be credited on the page. (a simplification of a longer curating process - please ask if you would like more details)
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      Re: Castro de Melgaço ou Castro da Cividade de Paderne by TheCaptain on Thursday, 03 April 2014
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      Welcome here Alta-Falisa.

      There are probably many Spanish and Portuguese Castros I found (possibly from a listing on Wickipedia) several years ago during a few days off work with a torn calf muscle. During this time I added many "blank" Spanish site pages for various sites I had found referred to in various books and other sources I had.

      These will all simply say something like XXX is a Castro in the community of XXX in XXX Portugal, and have been given a position I found from either Google Earth pictures, any maps I could find, or for just the nearest village.

      Please feel welcome to update any of them as best you think possible. After all, this is one of the reasons for adding the basic pages. Somebody like you finds it and can then add to our knowledge and database.
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        Re: Castro de Melgaço ou Castro da Cividade de Paderne by Alta-Falisa on Thursday, 03 April 2014
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        Good evening Captain,
        I have visited two such Castros (near Braga) last month, and will suggest to create these sites, and add one of two photos in a couple of days.
        If you work on Portugal, I suggest that we stay in touch. I'm presently documenting the North of Portugal. I think that davidmorgan is somewhere in the South, or in Spain.
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    Re: Castro de Melgaço ou Castro da Cividade de Paderne by Alta-Falisa on Tuesday, 01 April 2014
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    Thanks, Andy, for your explanation. I'm still in the process of decrypting how the Portal works behind the scene. My dream, probably certainly your dream as well, would be to tend, for each monument of importance, towards short monographies like on this site : http://www.steinzeugen.de/)
    One more question : is there one or more administrators in charge of a given region (of particular interest for me at the moment : Portugal), or are the administrators acting collectively ?
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      Re: Castro de Melgaço ou Castro da Cividade de Paderne by Andy B on Tuesday, 01 April 2014
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      Yes that 's the idea to work towards, we can accept plan images as well as photos if people would like to post them. Admins do have areas they tend to specialise in but the site pages and images are edited by most of us, no one person has singular control of one area. We don't have anyone with a specialism in the Iberian Peninsula unfortunately. A rundown of the various admins is here.
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