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Re: Menir da Vilarinha 1 by obscureed on Saturday, 12 October 2013

Here's a rough translation (thanks, Google!): "This is a sub-cylindrical monolith, made of the local red sandstone. It was part of an alignment that included four other menhirs. It was found in a fallen state, and the hidden face had kept engraved decorations of different periods.
Near the top, there is a kind of collar, using parallel linear motifs and circles; this is attributable to the late Neolithic or Bronze Age (4th-3rd millennia BC). Further down, there is a sinuous line of seven cupmarks.
Near the base, currently partly buried [or in the buried part], there is a large figure of a serpent, rolled into a spiral. This possibly dates to the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC). However, the menhir itself, like similar ones in the Algarve, was erected in the Early Neolithic (6th-5th millennia BC)."

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