Dolmens of the Rápido and Portelagem

Vila Chã (Dolmens do Rapido and Portelagem)

The plateau of Vila Chã is a true museum of outdoor archeology, proliferating the dolmens through the territory of the parish. Among the most well-known are the mamoa or Dolmen do Rapido near the village road that connects the parish of Vila Chã to that of S. Paio de Antas. It is a megalithic funerary monument dating from the III millennium a. C., being constituted by a mamoa of earth covering a dolmen, well conserved, of reduced dimensions. It's formed by a small funerary chamber, defined by nine pillars, with a very low corridor, which also has two of the covering slabs. Some of its stelae reveal traces of engravings.

The mamoa or Dolmen of the Portellage, also of III millennium a. C., presents/displays a burial chamber constituted by nine granite supports and part of the cover slab. It has remains of a small corridor and surrounding the slabs of the chamber are visible the small stones of the buttress. It revealed faint traces of rock inscriptions. Of its estate is to mention a ceramic vase, as well as several arrowheads and flint knives.