SW Archaeology Digs

Name: SW Archaeology Digs
Address: Rua de Santana 12, Moura, 7875-066, PT
Telephone: +351916084080

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South-West Archaeology Digs (SWAD) is an archaeology field school running between May and September every year in the south of Portugal.

03/10/2026

What’s it like to dig with SWAD? ⛏️🏺

🔈 Hear from about her experience excavating at Castelo Velho de Safara!

👉 Want to join us? Applications are open for our Winter and Summer 2027 excavations. ❄️☀️

🔗 Apply now — link in bio!

27/09/2026

Stepping back into the Ice Age at the Côa Valley 🪨✨

❓Can you spot some of the animals hidden among these Upper Palaeolithic rock engravings? 🐴🐐🐟

Smithsonian Journeys

26/09/2026

New adventure. New horizons. Time to set sail with Smithsonian Journeys! 🚢✨

25/09/2026

From the trench to publication! ⛏️🦴📖

🎊 We are very happy to see the faunal remains from Compartment 1 at Castelo Velho de Safara now published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

🔄This paper represents the full cycle of archaeological research. Olivia Charles liv ✨ , first author of the study, first came to Safara as a volunteer with our SWAD field school, getting her hands dirty and excavating the site alongside us. She then went from digging the animal bones to studying them as a zooarchaeologist, investigating what they can tell us about diet and subsistence during the Roman Republican occupation. Now, that work has become a scientific publication!

👨‍🎓 This is exactly what a field school should be about: not simply learning how to excavate, but understanding how discoveries made in the field become research, interpretation and, ultimately, new knowledge about the past.

👏 Congratulations to Olivia and all the authors! ✨

27/08/2026

The Roman Republican occupation is the best-known chapter of Castelo Velho de Safara and our excavations are gradually revealing how this settlement was organised and how people lived here more than 2,000 years ago 🏺

🏘️ In Trenches 1 and 5, we have been uncovering the urban area. Trench 1 revealed a street alongside different working and storage spaces, including evidence of blacksmithing, while Trench 5 is taking us directly into the residential quarter, with several rooms and structures belonging to Roman Republican houses.

⛏️ In Trench 4, we excavated part of the impressive defensive ditch system that protected the settlement.

26/08/2026

Between the prehistoric and Roman occupations at Castelo Velho de Safara, we also have evidence that people were living here during the Iron Age 🏺⏳

⛏️ So far, traces of this occupation have been identified in Trench 2 and in the test pit opened in the street area of Trench 1.

24/08/2026

Before the Romans, Castelo Velho de Safara already had a story 🏺⏳

👑 Around 5,000 years ago, during the Chalcolithic (Copper Age), communities occupied the highest part of the site, around the rocky outcrop locally known as O Assento do Rei — “The King’s Seat”

⛏️ And this is exactly where our new Trench 7 is located ✨

24/08/2026

Num contexto onde muitos pequenos monumentos permanecem fora dos principais circuitos turísticos, a Ermida da Coroada exemplifica a riqueza patrimonial existente para além dos grandes centros históricos.

Mais informação no link do primeiro comentário !!!👇🏻

05/08/2026

This was the beginning of another unforgettable summer season at Castelo Velho de Safara. Here’s how the adventure began. ⛏️✨

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Endereço

Rua De Santana 12
Moura
7875-066

Telefone

+351916084080

Website

http://www.swarchaeologydigs.com/

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