Contributo para o conhecimento do povoamento rural romano no concelho de Montemor-o-Novo: caso da barragem dos minutos

O concelho de Montemor-o-Novo é rico em vestígios arqueológicos de várias cronologias, pelo que a época romana não é excepção. Durante muito tempo pouco se conhecia deste período cronológico, particularmente a forma do seu povoamento. Durante os anos 60 do século XX, foram identificadas e escavadas algumas estruturas deste período, nomeadamente a Fonte do Prior, o Curral dos Cães e o Cabeço do Ceivo. No entanto, foi durante as obras da Barragem dos Minutos que começamos a ter uma nova perceção de como seria o povoamento romano neste território. Sítios como estes têm vindo, ao longo do tempo, a ser colocados de parte quando se falava sobre a romanização dos campos por se considerar que essa ocupação era exclusiva das luxuosas villae e por se pensar que estes sítios fariam parte das villae. Neste trabalho iremos ver o resultado das intervenções realizados na Barragem dos Minutos, bem como as realizadas no regolfo da Barragem de Alqueva com o objectivo de tentar perceber estas novas realidades do povoamento romano; Abstract: The Montemor-o-Novo municipality is rich in archaeological remains of various chronologies, so the Roman era is no exception. But for a long time little was known of this chronological period and especially the shape of your settlement. During the 60s of the twentieth century, they have been identified and excavated some structures of this period, namely the Fonte do Prior, the Curral dos Cães and the Cabeço Ceivo. But it was during the construction of the dam of Minutos we started to have a new perception of how would the Roman settlement in this territory. Sites like these have been, over time, to be put aside when talking about the romanization of the fields in Roman times as it was considered that this occupation was exclusive of villae luxurious and think that these sites would be part of the villae. In this work we will see the result of the work done at the dam of the Minutos, as well as the work carried out in the surroundings of the Alqueva Dam and try to understand these new realities of the Roman settlement.

Avaliação do efeito do corte horizontal da copa, com máquina de podar de discos, em pomares de pera “Rocha

Current pear pruning making use of pneumatic shears still is a very labour intensive operation. The Proder project “Avaliação da poda mecânica em pomares de pera” was designed to contribute to solutions that would reduce the present dependence in labour and therefore to promote a reduction in pruning costs. This paper shows the results of a trial made to evaluate the influence of mechanical topping in manual pruning complement field work and pear yield. Topping was performed using a Reynolds 6DT 3.0m cutting bar with six hydraulic-driven circular disc-saws mounted in the three point tractor linkage system. The field trial was performed in a commercial orchard with 20 years, planted in an array of 4m x 2m with tree lines oriented in North-South direction. Trees were trained as the central leader system. In this trial, in a randomised complete block design with four replications, two treatments are being compared leading to 8 plots with one line of 14 trees per plot. The treatments tests were: T1 - manual pruning performed by workers using pneumatic shears, in each year; T2 - Topping the canopy parallel to the ground, using a discs-saw pruning machine mounted in a front loader of an agricultural tractor, followed by manual pruning complement performed by workers with pneumatic shears. Tree height and width was measured, before and after pruning. Work was timed and pear yields evaluated. Mechanical topping seems to be effective in the control of tree height, which can contribute to increase 14% of work rates on manual pruning complement. No significant differences in pear yield were found between treatments.