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Burial mounds of Campo da Matanza

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Burial mounds of Campo da Matanza

Monument · Baleira, Fonsagrada, Lugo

A megalithic necropolis on Mount Campo da Matanza, in the parish of A Esperela, in the concello of Baleira, north-east of O Cádavo, at around 840 metres of altitude on a relatively flat surface. The 2013 General Municipal Development Plan recorded some eight medorras, or burial mounds, there, some with their tumulus mass much disturbed by pine plantations and others better preserved, with a diameter of around 18 metres and a height close to a metre; the largest reaches 20 metres along its north-south axis. Nearby is the old football pitch known as A Medorra, and oral tradition places here, in the early ninth century, a battle between Christian and Muslim troops.

Photo: Loisteixeiro (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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