Pretende-se com este artigo dar a conhecer os resultados dos trabalhos arqueológicos levados a cabo no monu-mento funerário de Laceiras do Côvo 3, estrutura tumular enquadrável, provavelmente, na Idade do Bronze, localizada na freguesia de Arões, concelho de Vale de Cambra. Este monumento revela-se de particular inte-resse pela policromia intencional na matéria usada na sua construção e pela disposição cuidada dos elementos litológicos do tumulus, em que nada parece estar ao acaso. Tais características sugerem a intenção de manter o espaço dos mortos visível, assim como uma interligação simbólica entre rochas e minerais e as práticas relacio-nadas com a morte. Na linha de Tim Ingold (2000) consideramos, ainda, que a matéria do monumento seria portadora de determinadas propriedades, revelando-se como entidade viva e atuante na construção de sentidos e memórias associadas ao mundo dos mortos.

The archaeological site of São Julião is a Late Bronze Age settlement, located on the coastal platform between Douro and Vouga rivers, which has been the subject of systematic research projects since 2014. Its most striking structures are the stone wall that delimited the enclosure and a megalithic mound, violated or reused in modern or contemporary times. The archaeological collection includes a significant set of ceramics, objects in stone and metals, with emphasis on a pair of gold earrings, perhaps related to the evidence of metallurgy that is observed in the place. Currently, a site’s archeological conservation and enhancement program is underway, with the support of the Municipality.

The Castro of Salreu, located in the municipality of Estarreja (Aveiro, center‑north of Portugal), is one of the most coastal proto‑historic settlements of the region between Douro and Vouga rivers, enjoying a privileged location on a meander of the river Antuã. The site has been the target, in recent years, of archaeological works that uncovered structures in two main areas, one of a housing nature and the other, corresponding to the defensive and delimiting structure of space. The five archaeological campaigns carried out allowed the collection of more than 35,000 ceramic fragments, some lithic artifacts, an engraved plaque, few metal objects and a set of more than two dozen glass paste beads. It is proposed that their occupation occurred between the 4th/3rd centuries BC and the change of the Age.

ResumoNeste trabalho dão-se a conhecer os resultados da investigação levada a cabo num núcleo de pequenos monumentos sob tumuli de tradição megalítica localizados na serra da Freita, concelhos de Vale de Cambra e Arouca, Portugal, que cremos da Idade do Bronze. No que diz respeito às arquiteturas, constatamos a existência de grande variedade nas tipologias construtivas dos montículos e das câmaras, assim como a policromia de muitos montículos, resultante do uso de diferentes materiais geológicos. Verificámos, também, que se localizam em lugares liminares, nas proximidades de lameiros e de recursos de cassiterite de coluvião. Tais elementos permitiram interpretações sobre o universo de crenças destas comunidades e dos seus modos de vida, admitindo o seu carácter animista e o facto de serem pastores e, possivelmente, metalurgistas. Palavras-ChaveIdade do Bronze, Monumentos sob tumuli, Arquiteturas, Cosmologias, Modos de vida. AbstractIn this paper we acknowledge the results of the research carried out in a nucleus of small monuments under a megalithic mound, located in the hills of Freita, in the municipalities of Vale de Cambra and Arouca, Portugal, that we ascribed to the Bronze Age. With regard to the architectures, we find a great variety in the typologies of mounds and chambers, as well as a great polychromy in the hillocks resulting from the use of different geological materials. We also noticed that they are located in liminal places, near marshes and resources of colluvium cassiterite. These elements allow for interpretations regarding the universe of beliefs of these communities and their ways of life, recognizing their animistic character and the fact that they were shepherds and, eventually, metallurgists.

This article presents a summary of the results from the archaeological campaigns which took place in 2020 and 2021, in the Castro of Madalena, at Vila Nova de Gaia. The excavations in this small Atlantic Iron Age settlement, allowed us to collect the first data related to the dwelling structures and adjacent areas. We highlight the preferential use of building materials such as clay, cob, grit, and plant elements, which differ from more traditionally used stone elements. These ones emerge as a finishing element, suggesting the existence of mixed building materials. Also, is of particular interest the evidence of walkways, built with similar materials, surrounding the houses. We believe that further research will provide an important contribute to increase the knowledge of the internal organization of regional Iron Age settlements, prior to the Roman domain.