Vale de Rodrigo (Évora) Large prostrated menhir, elongated oval
and flat shaped, craved on both sides - primarily composed of
circular and subcircularmotifs, serpentine and a possible staff.
The monolith stands along the outer edge of the mound of
megalithic tholos Vale de Rodrigo 1, on the East side. In the
immediate area are known many funerary monuments and
Neolithic/Chalcolithic settlements. The set is located in a
little steep slope exposed to the East and there are no granite
outcrops nearby, although they occur less than 1 km away. This
is one of the first standing stones identified in the area of
Évora (Leisner, 1944). Their association in space with the
dolmen led Georg Leisner regard it as a benchmark indicator and,
later, the same association was based on a proposal for a late-
Neolithic chronology for the menhirs in general (Gibson et al.,
1978).