Anta da Lameira do Fojo 1

Anta da Lameira do Fojo is a dolmen in the civil parish of Couto de Cima, within the municipality and district of Viseu, Portugal.

In Portuguese, anta means a terminal pillar of a Greek or Roman temple, but the word is also used for dolmen stones and for dolmens themselves. About 5,000 megalithic structures of this kind were built in western Iberia during the Neolithic by successors of the Cardial culture.

The monument was constructed between the late fourth millennium BCE and the early third millennium BCE, in the final Neolithic or Neo-Chalcolithic period. It has a polygonal chamber about 3.80 m in diameter and 2 m high, reached by an access corridor about 7 m long. Two of its chamber orthostates remain raised and lean inward, while seven are still in place.

Three stones on the sides of the corridor are decorated with paintings showing two anthropomorphic figures, one of which appears to hold a bow, along with figures also identified on the remaining chamber supports. The dolmen has a large, apparently well-preserved tumulus, but craters were found in 1989, allowing access to its contents at an undetermined time. The chamber was partly destroyed when a road was opened around its perimeter, and many believed the materials it contained were precious. The monument has been classified as a Property of Public Interest (Category IIP) since 1992.

Anta da Lameira do Fojo 1 is a dolmen in Coutos de Viseu, Portugal. Wikidata describes it as: cultural heritage monument in Viseu, Portugal. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Anta de Lameira do Fojo", shown in the original language.