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Multi-periodSite Name: Necrópole de Carenque Alternative Name: Necropolis of CarenqueCountry: Portugal
NOTE: This site is 2.759 km away from the location you searched for.
Distrito: Lisboa Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Nearest Town: Carenque - Amadora
Latitude: 38.773298N Longitude: 9.244273W
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 |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Bak_teria visited on 30th Aug 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
Ana visited on 30th Aug 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4 Access: 4.5
The Necropolis of Carenque consists of three collective tombs excavated in the limestone outcrops of Tojal de Vila Chã. Is situated between Carenque and Moinhos da Funcheira.
These tombs are generally referred as artificial caves. They were excavated in the rock in part of a Mediterranean cultural tradition. The tombs also show characteristics of a region that coincides roughly with the Tejo river estuary. You can find other burial sites of this kind in other regions of Portugal - the artificial caves of Palmela de Alapraia, the ones from São Pedro do Estoril and the tombs of São Paulo.
Giving somehow the morphology typical of a Dolmen these kind of artificial caves have a characteristic architecture. They are serviced by a hallway, usually facing east, that connects with a burial chamber through a small rounded shape portal. Both the hallway and the skylight of the chambers were covered with heavy slabs of limestone closing the structure from the outside.
All the archaeological materials and human remains from the excavations are in the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (National Museum of Archaeology). Manuel Heleno was interim Director of this institution when it made this archaeological site work.
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