It was announced that the Chamber of Caminha will sign a contract with Património Culture IP to transfer the first monooxyl pirogue, found 39 years ago on the Lima River, in Viana do Castelo, for display in the municipal museum.
In a statement, the municipality of Viana do Castelo said that the draft contract to be awarded to Patrimóniocultural IP was approved at a council meeting.
The agreement provides for the transfer of the pirogue, a vessel built from a single tree trunk and classified as a national treasure, for a period of five years, which can be extended.
The pie, designated Lima 1, dates from the period between the second half of the 10th and the first half of the 11th century.
In contact with the Lusa agency, the coordinator of the Municipal Museum of Caminha, Sérgio Cadilla, estimated that in July the sample should be exhibited in the municipality.
The person in charge explained that “it is still necessary to go through all the bureaucratic procedures to authorize the transport of the pirogue from the National Center for Marine and Underwater Archeology (CNANS) in Lisbon to Caminha.”
Sergio Cadilla also reported that the Caminha Museum is preparing a space where the work will be exhibited in its “own showcase”, indicated by Património Culture IP.
To become part of the Caminha Museum’s collection, “several requirements were established, namely exhibition space and security measures.”
“Environmental conditions, relative humidity, temperature and lighting will need to be respected, as well as the absence of vibration and atmospheric pollution,” the municipality said in a note.
According to the municipality, “the pirogue was removed from the bed of the Lima River in Viana do Castelo on March 2, 1985 and transported to a warehouse owned by a local captain, where it went unnoticed.”
It was later bought by Raúl de Souza, at that time an employee of the Caminha City Council and belonging to the organizing group of the Caminha Municipal Museum (MMC).
According to Sérgio Cadilla, “due to unsatisfactory preventive conditions in the deposit, the pirogue was transferred first to the Monographic Museum of Conimbriga and then to the CNANS facilities in Lisbon, where a process of consolidation began with the aim of drying and stabilization in arid conditions. Wednesday”.
The processing of Lima 1 was completed in the laboratory of the National Museum of Underwater Archeology (ARQUA) in Cartagena, Spain.
A total of seven pirogues have been discovered on the Lima River, classified as a Group of National Interest (CIN) and given the status of “national treasure”, according to a decree published in the Diário da República in June 2021.
In general, the opening of the first pirogue dates back to 1985, and the last – 2023.
Six pirogues were collected from the Lima River between 1985 and 2008.
“This assemblage, which in the context of the Iberian Peninsula has no analogues given the number of vessels involved, represents remarkable evidence of the navigation that was practiced on the Lima River from the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages, radiocarbon dated,” mentioned in the document confirming the classification.
The classification was proposed to the government in 2020 by the DGPC.
Monoxyl cakes are made from a tree trunk dug up for this purpose, and this type of vessel has been known in Europe since prehistoric times, more precisely since Neolithic times.
Regarding the vessels found on the Lima River, the two oldest are “dated to carbon 14 and dated to the 4/3rd century BC.”
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