The Cividade de Bagunte Archaeological Project

Summary

The Cividade de Bagunte is the most publicized archaeological site of the Municipality of Vila do Conde and is classified as a Portuguese National Monument. Located on a mound with great visibility over the territories to the north and south of the Ave River, approximately 30km north of Oporto city, it called the attention and interest of various archaeologists such as Ricardo Severo and Martins Sarmento, in the end of the 19th century, and F. Russell Cortez in the 1940s. F. Russell Cortez organized excavation campaigns at the site that uncovered a mixture of Castrejo and Roman type buildings and structures, distributed into orthogonal spaces that already have the seal of a Roman influence in the region. The urban reorganization of the town happened in the 2nd half of the century, with the Flavian dynasty. Since the 1990s, the Municipality of Vila do Conde is running a project to preserve, study and provide public access to the archeological site. This presentation is a way to publicize, in an international environment, the achievements made by this effort.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20242