Os Dolia da Antiguidade Tardia do Castro de Guifões (Matosinhos)

Abstract

This text aims to present a group of ceramics belonging to large containers for conservation or storage, conventionally known as dolia. Recovered during the fi rst excavation campaign carried out under a research project in Archaeology (PIPA), named GUIFARQ - Guifões Archaeological Research Project, they come from four distinct stratigraphic units framed in the Late Antiquity. The defi ning features of the multiple fragments exhumed, belonging to different vessels, and the contextual relationship attested with other materials, with well-defi ned chronologies, will be explored to understand aspects related to the dynamics of occupation of the Castro in that period. In parallel, interpretative proposals will also be put forward for the documented occurrences in the light of the new contextualized data and the comparison with other similar material previously recovered.