Francisco Martins Sarmento
1876
Cattle prisons, Citânia de Briteiros, Monte de S. Romão

Glass plate collodion negative
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Sociedade Martins Sarmento, Guimarães, Portugal, Archive no: PTRMGMRCFMS062 - http://www.eduardobrito.pt/sarmento.html
 
Nuno Borges de Araújo (8 July 2018)
Francisco Martins Sarmento (1833-1899) was an amateur archaeologist. He studied photography in the late 1860s and early 1870s to document his archaeological works. His main archaeological excavations took place in the Iron Age fortified places of Citânia de Briteiros and Castro de Sabroso (Guimarães, northwest Portugal). One of his photographic works was the production of two albums of images, dated 1876 and 1878, of the excavations which he took in the Citânia de Briteiros. They were presented to the participants of the Congresso de Antropologia e de Arqueologia Pré-Histórica [Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology] held in Lisbon in 1880, which brought to Portugal many European archaeologists. The participants made a visit to the Citânia de Briteiros. The collection of images of this site have been object of a two volume facsimile edition in 1992. His 543 large format photographic negatives and notebooks are kept in the Sociedade Martins Sarmento, in Guimarães.
 
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