A village drawn on the hillside
In Monte do Castelo, relief is part of history.
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The municipal inventory proposes the existence of a small fortified village of the first millennium before Christ. The interpretation is based on the platforms of the land and on the position over an irrigated area. It is not necessary to imagine a medieval castle: here, the word of the toponym accompanies traces of another era.
The small elevation and regular platforms are two clues used in the interpretation. The position allows mastering an irrigated floor extending north. The argument thus combines the form of the land with the relationship between the village and the surrounding area; the toponym alone does not solve dating.
Source and context
Municipality — archaeological inventory, interpretations and chronologies
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