On the summit of Monte do Oural, in the municipality of Vila Verde, a group of archaeologists and students from the University of Minho (UMinho) are now excavating a recently found megalithic funerary monument.

According to the municipality, the goal is to preserve the preservation of "a valuable heritage find" whose construction is thought to have occurred more than 5,000 years ago, between 4,000 and 3,000 BC.

On the municipality's website, archaeologist Luciano Vilas Boas, who oversees the excavation work of the Oural mound on the ground, noted that the area is extremely rich in terms of archaeological heritage, identifying the existence of three additional megalithic monuments of a funerary nature and a collection of rock art there.

It is now feasible to confirm that there were "various populations" present in this region, which was close to the lookout point on the Ribeira do Neiva's boundaries.