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A notebook.
Your findings.

Up to six proposals of Cabeceiras, in your own order, to do it at home, in company or on a break.

3 de 6 propostas escolhidas · faça-as ao seu ritmo.

PROPOSTA 1 DE 3 · Travel through time

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Arco de Baúlhe · archaeological interpretation

Before the railway, a hillfort

During Romanisation, the region’s settlements did not all follow the same path. The Archaeological Map suggests that the small hillfort at Arco de Baúlhe may have lost inhabitants while Chacim became more central. It also mentions the expansion of agricultural occupation onto lower land. This interpretation helps us imagine a changing territory, but gives no certain date for the abandonment of Arco’s hillfort. The Map places these changes within a process beginning in the second half of the 1st century BC. Transformation extended beyond houses: relationships among settlements, fields and centres of power changed too. Chacim appears as a focus for population and renewed spaces, while Arco is presented as a possible example of depopulation. Material from Mó de Cima, in Chacim, is used to support the agricultural occupation of lower land. Later, the text highlights open farmstead-type settlements such as Abadim. Read together, these clues show a change in territorial organisation; they do not allow a single movement of inhabitants between two points to be traced, or every change to be dated to the same year.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Draw two villages and fields among them.
  2. Use arrow keys to represent the hypothesis of population change; do not draw a historical route as if it were proven.
  3. Compare the history of the Arch with that of the agricultural couple of Abadim.

A paper proposal to explore history at your own pace.

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Sources of this proposal

My findings

An idea, a drawing or a question to go on.

PROPOSTA 2 DE 3 · Travel through time

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Gondiães and Vilar de Cunhas · memory and landscape

A house with three granaries

At Casa de Chouzas, three 19th-century granaries stand alongside the manor house highlighted by the municipality. The group connects two functions: living and storing the harvest. Rather than looking only at the main house, it is worth recognising the importance of buildings supporting agriculture. The introduction to Vilar de Cunhas places this heritage in a landscape of plateau and mountain, shaped by farming and pastoralism. House and granaries can be read in that working context, although the source does not detail each property’s production. The house’s dating is less firm: the municipality presents it as perhaps 19th-century, while assigning the granaries to the 19th century. That difference should remain visible. The photograph accompanying the reading shows the portal, not the three granaries. The heritage reference does not confirm access to the group.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Look at the photo of the portal and list only the elements you can see.
  2. Compared to the three granaries mentioned in the text: what depends on the written description?
  3. Imagine a caption that distinguishes the frame of the photograph from the remaining patrimonial set.

An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.

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Sources of this proposal

My findings

An idea, a drawing or a question to go on.

PROPOSTA 3 DE 3 · Crafts and memories

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Alvite and Passos · irrigation documented in 2008

The water changed its path

The municipal record for Poça do Monte, surveyed on 14 April 2008, describes a change in Alvite: the shared users piped the natural-ground channel in 2001. It was about one kilometre long and used water from the Ribeiro Furado spring. The record identifies seven shared users and mentions a steep initial slope. This story helps distinguish the old open channel from piped water conveyance. The document cannot establish the network’s condition today and does not present a walking route.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Split a sheet into two columns: before and after.
  2. Note the change described in the text and the date of the source.
  3. Write a question the document leaves open.

Exploitation of the document, no visit to the real estate.

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Sources of this proposal

My findings

An idea, a drawing or a question to go on.

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