Excavations 2023


This is a temporary blog for presenting the excavations at Perdigões. Posts from 2011 to 2022 are available.

Saturday 29 July 2017

0225 - The last (and long) post of the campaign


The team of the 2nd phase. Two are missing, one possibly trying to get out of pit 80 and the other wondering around with a machine in hands.


An example of the complexity of middle Neolithic ditches, suggesting the periodic building of ditched enclosures in the same general area.


An example of the cutting of a middle Neolithic ditch by a late Neolithic one (ditch 5). 



The end of ditch 5 under Chalcolithic deposits and structures. Possibly a gate.


Two sections of Chalcolithic circular structures dismounted during the Chalcolithic. A deposit separate them, and another deposit is under the lower one.


That last deposit is against  the face of the wall. This is showing a sequence of construction of these stone structures during the Chalcolirhic.


Pit 80 is getting deeper. Who knows me knows I am a Beatles fan. And this pit reminds me of a song from Pepper's: "It's getting better all the time", where Lennon sang in the back: "it can get no worse"


And finally, the column has already about 70 cm.

See you next year (if not before).

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