entity · site_iberia1_castro_dos_ratinhos
Castro dos Ratinhos
fortified hilltop settlement
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1200 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Novos dados sobre o Castro dos Ratinhos (Moura, Portugal): ocupação do Bronze Final e transição para a Idade do Ferro — João Fonte, Tiago do Pereiro, Miguel Serra (2024)Provides the phase chronology and settlement evidence.
Locator: pp. 119–135, Late Bronze and Early Iron Age sequence
Research description
Fortified Portuguese settlement with a Late Bronze Age occupation from approximately the twelfth to ninth centuries BCE and a separately modelled later Iron Age phase.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Fortified or enclosed settlement evidence
Excavated or securely documented defensive or enclosing architecture.
Why does this record have this property?
The enclosure does not prove direct continuity with all later castros.
- Novos dados sobre o Castro dos Ratinhos (Moura, Portugal): ocupação do Bronze Final e transição para a Idade do Ferro
supports assignment and caveat · pp. 119–135
Continuity or adaptation evidence
Occupation, subsistence or social practice continues through a wider period of regional change.
Why does this record have this property?
Late Bronze and later Iron Age phases are connected but separately dated.
- Novos dados sobre o Castro dos Ratinhos (Moura, Portugal): ocupação do Bronze Final e transição para a Idade do Ferro
supports assignment and caveat · pp. 119–135
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
Novos dados sobre o Castro dos Ratinhos (Moura, Portugal): ocupação do Bronze Final e transição para a Idade do Ferro — João Fonte, Tiago do Pereiro, Miguel Serra (2024)Provides the phase chronology and settlement evidence.
Locator: pp. 119–135, Late Bronze and Early Iron Age sequence
Referenced records
- Atlantic Portugal interaction frame · entity
- Geography assertion for site_iberia1_castro_dos_ratinhos · geography assertion