Today we had a visit of local children. 80
of them. It was children’s open day at Perdigões. We must not forget to whom we
are working for and that that the interest for heritage is not something that
is in the air: you have to work it.
As to the excavation, things are in
progress in several areas. But pit 40 had some interesting developments.
After excavating the layer with no
cremated bones, we reach the bottom of the pit. But there we could see de
continuation of the Late Neolithic ditch 5, that was cut by the pit. Because this pit was not deep enough, the
bottom part of the ditch was preserved. You can easily see the continuation of
the ditch behind the pit.
But at the bottom of pit 40 it was also
possible to detect a semi circular small ditch that was previous to it.
Finally, two post pits were detected in
the centre of pit 40, They are still ion excavation, but are filled with ashes
and cremated remains, showing that the pit had a roof while it was in use for
the deposition of the cremated remains. It was not just pit reused for these
depositions. It seems to have been a “tomb”, regularly used and protected by a
roof.
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