20th century archaeology Cividade de Terroso

group of workers made excavations in 1906 in cividade.



cividade de terroso during first archaeology works in 1906.

cividade later cited other authors. in 20th century, rocha peixoto encouraged friend antónio dos santos graça subsidize archaeology works.

outside acropolis, modern archaeological surveys reveled more buildings.

in 1906, excavations began on june 5 25 manual workers , continued until october, interrupted due bad weather; recommenced in may 1907, finishing in same year. materials discovered taken museums in city of porto.

after death of rocha peixoto, in 1909, rocks of citadel had been used pave streets in póvoa de varzim, notably rua santos minho street , rua das hortas. occasionally, groups of scouts of portuguese youth , others in decades of 1950s , 1960s, made diggings in search archaeology pieces. seen archaeological vandalism continued after cividade listed property of public interest in 1961.

in 1980, póvoa de varzim city hall invited armando coelho pursue further archaeology works; these took place during summer of year. result used coelho s project cultura castreja norte de portugal. archaeological surveys led same archaeologist resumed in 1981, leading discovery of grave , tombstones, helped comprehend funerary rituals; housing, yards , walls surveyed, main focus 1982 archaeological surveys along recovery of decumanus street (east-west). archaeology works resumed in 1989 , 1991. city hall purchased acropolis area , constructed small archaeological museum in entrance.

in 2005, groups of portuguese , spanish (galician) archaeologists had started study hypothesis of cividade , 6 others classified world heritage sites of unesco. rede de castros noroeste, northwestern castro network, established in 2015 grouping important sites in northern portugal including cividade de terroso cividade de bagunte, citânia de sanfins, citânia de briteiros, citânia de santa lúzia , few other sites.