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The Henge Monuments of the British Isles: Myth and Archaeology

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Submitted by Bak_teria on Tuesday, 09 September 2014  Page Views: 1847

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Anta de Casaínhos Alternative Name: Monumento Megalítico de Casaínhos
Country: Portugal Distrito: Lisboa Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Casaínhos
Latitude: 38.880616N  Longitude: 9.169433W
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.
3 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
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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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Anta de Casaínhos
Anta de Casaínhos submitted by Bak_teria : From another view. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Estremadura and Tejo Valley

The megalithic monument of Casaínhos best known for 'Anta de Casaínhos' is located in the town of Casaínhos at Fanhões (Loures). This funerary monument was only classified as a national monument of Portugal in 1977.

When better studied in 1961 this megalithic monument was erected in the middle of the Neo Chalcolithic established for this region of the current Portuguese territory. It was done in a time when a perfectly deployed farming culture and proliferation of occupations concentrated in villages with excellent defense conditions in the same tradition of the late Neolithic of the Extremadura region.

It has a polygonal burial chamber of which only two original slabs remain. The dolmen - or 'anta' as it is known among the local population - has an access corridor with a lateral niche.

Beyond the osteological remains of the buried it was also found abundant associated material highlighting the lithics (like a arrowhead) and a small beads necklace executed in shale and limestone along with the ever present ceramic fragments.

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Anta de Casaínhos
Anta de Casaínhos submitted by Bak_teria : Another view. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Anta de Casaínhos
Anta de Casaínhos submitted by Bak_teria : The two remaining slabs of the Dolmen. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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