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In Marmoirais, Abadim, mammoths and granite outcrops with engravings form an archaeological set. The inventory proposes the second or first millennium before Christ, comparing ceramics, engraved motifs and similar sets of the Northwest. Dating results from this interpretation. The name Marmoirais is also related in the source with the tumular memory of the place: the landscape can keep clues in the vestiges and names.

The inventory distinguishes conservation and interpretation: it describes the whole as poorly preserved and admits that the Mamoa 5 can remain intact. It proposes cyst-type funeral structures, without presenting this hypothesis as a confirmed excavation.

The tombs and engravings are different traces, gathered in the same landscape. Reading ceramic materials and comparison with other sets help to propose chronology, but do not automatically reveal the meaning of each recorded motif.

The pillory of Abadim seems simple at first glance: a smooth column of granite, a cubic capite and a pear-shaped shot. But on one side you find a five-pointed star inside a four-lobe frame. The Museum links the monument to the administrative and judicial autonomy of the former Couto, extinguished in 1836. The Museum brings its construction closer to the foral of 1514, but the record of the Cultural Heritage warns that dating is difficult and that the piece can be quite later. The detail of the star invites you to look again at a piece that would easily go unnoticed.

The official record describes four faces on the capital: three undecorated and one with the star. This helps to understand why a photograph from another side may not show the best known reason. The record places the monument next to the portal of the House of Tower of Tronco and documents the classification as Public Interest Property in 1933. The date of protection is not the date of construction.

The foral, the stone age and the patrimonial classification answer different questions. Instead of automatically assigning ‘1514’ to the entire monument, compare the described form, the proposals for dating and the documents that changed its status.

Before reaching Cabeceiras, the line had to cross the valley of the river of Veade. The bridge of Matamá is in the Union of the Freguesies of Veade, Gagos and Molares, in Celorico of Basto. According to the Museum, its six granite arches form a structure about 190 meters long and 52 meters high.

The report distinguishes two moments: the opening of the bridge in 5 June 1936, and the entry into railway use in 15 January 1949, with the opening of the Celorico section of Basto–Arco de Baúlhe. Having the bridge built did not immediately mean having trains arriving at the Arc. This regional history helps to realize the time needed to complete the connection.

The report of the Museum attributes the responsibility of the work to engineers Jorge Vieira Bastian and Manuel Gonçalves Costa. The dimension of the structure helps to realize the challenge of taking the railway through the valley; the chronology allows to separate this work from the entry into service of the complete connection.

The municipal presentation highlights a particularity of the chapel of Santa Catarina de Alvite: it is encrusted in a penedia. The encounter between rock and construction gives a clue to look at the heritage beyond the facade.

The source identifies this relationship with the place, but does not provide here a construction date or a visiting time. The chapel form gathers the available documentary information.

The memory of 1758 already named Santa Catarina in the hill with this name, among six chapels of the parish. The two sources answer different questions: the old document places it in a network of places of worship; the municipal presentation draws attention to the relationship between construction and rock. This presence in the report does not date the external form that the photograph shows.

The municipal inventory links the Arame Bridge of Padroselos to the tin exploration. The form Po.27 describes iron, wood and ruin, without filling the date of survey.

The Freixo Bridge, no Torneiro, integrated the path between Cunhas and Torneiro. The record Po.28 records granite and no guards. In Po.29, the Arames Bridge over the Beça appears with a concrete board supported by five pillars. These two chips are 20 March 2008.

There are three different references. The inventory allows to know the memory of the connections, but does not confirm current conditions or propose crossings.