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A Cruz do Lugar das Marcas (Lousado, Vila Nova de Famalicão) e o Couto do Moste...

Monographic study of a cross engraved in a rock located near the southern bank of the river Ave, at Lugar das Marcas (Lousado, Vila Nova de Famalicão). This is a huge cross, 1,5 m long, obeying a pre-romanesque typology. However, the author dates this cross to the early 12th century and links it to the Charter of Immunity ("carta de couto") of the Benedictine Monastery of Santo Tirso founded in 978. This charte...

Santo Estêvão de Chaves : uma nova inscrição do Bispo D. Pedro

Study of two medieval inscriptions of Santo Estêvão de Chaves, a church in the North of Portugal: one of 1089 (AD), celebrating the Dedication of the temple; the other one, of 1294 (AD), celebrating the rebuilding of the church. The oldest inscription, which corresponds to the dedication officiated by the Bishop D. Pedro (1071-1091), is contextualized in the earliest medieval documentation of Santo Estêvão de C...

Armando Coelho Ferreira da Silva : tábua cronológica e bibliografia

As quatro faces de Rodrigo Sanches

Rodrigo Sanches, bastard son of king Sancho I, died in 1245 in the first battle of the Civil War of 1245-48. His monument was commissioned by his sister, D. Constança Sanches, and executed in Coimbra c. 1263-64. The cenotaph was removed, in 1626, to the Cloister of the monastery of Grijó, and placed in an arcosolium, which only allowed the reading of the lid and the left side of the sarcophagus. Recently, it wa...

História do povoamento de Picote (HISTPP) : projecto de investigação (2012-2015)

In a time of great decline of public funding in archaeological investigation, it was formed in 2012 the research project "História do Povoamento de Picote", proposed by Associação para o Desenvolvimento Integrado de Picote (Frauga) to the University of Porto (UP). This project was created with the main objective of carrying out excavations in the archaeological site of Puio, as well as the recovery of other inf...

Um triente de Vitiza procedente de Alva (Castro Daire)

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Sepulturas escavadas na rocha de Entre Douro e Minho

Written in 1987 and revised in 1990, the present study, dedicated to the rock-hewn tombs of the Entre Douro e Minho, brings a contextualized perspective of these medieval archaeological remains. It was, in this perspective, a pioneer study in Portugal. First we analyze the earliest historical references for this kind of graves and the various chronological proposals suggested by the different authors. Then we d...

De Miranda do Douro ao Sabugal : arquitectura militar e testemunhos arqueológic...

The author analyses the medieval evolution of a vast area in the east frontier of Portugal, between Miranda do Douro and Sabugal, from the Early Middle Age to the beginning of the 16th century. Although the main attention is centered in the evolution of military structures, other testimonies of the medieval occupation are also mentioned in this paper.

Fortificações e povoamento no Norte de Portugal (séc. IX a XI)

The author characterizes the time when the first castles were built in the North of Portugal during the last three decades of the 9th century (circa 870-900) and correlates this event to the Christian conquest process. The earliness of this process in the valley of river Douro is emphasized and the major evolution of the "encastelamento" (castle building) in the North of Portugal is presented, with identificati...