A fortified settlement in the community of Moura (São João Baptista) near the town of Moura, District of Beja, Portugal. The site is located next to the Alqueva dam in a hill, at a high point with a greater view of the surrounding landscape next to the Guadiana river. It was probably built in the final Bronze Age period at around 1100 BC and was occupied througout the Iron Age. The village was made up of clusters of circular huts built with mud and thatch and distributed over staggered platforms. The housing complex was protected by complex defensive structures that still retain important traces, integrating several lines of stone walls that crowned artificial slopes, drained by a monumental ditch dug directly into a schist outcrop.
Published on July 12, 2020 06:24
