Um Espaço Funerário Conventual do séc. XV em Lisboa: o caso do Convento de São Domingos da Cidade

In 1999-2001, an archaeological excavation took place at Praça da Figueira (Lisbon), in response to a municipal plan for the rehabilitation and revitalization of public space. The knowledge about the physiognomy of the area in Late Middle Ages was poorly understood, although several coeval documents ensured it corresponded in most of the area excavated to the vegetable gardens area of the Dominican Convent, founded in the 1242, and on which it would rise, from 1492, the Royal Hospital of All Saints. It is in this context that a medieval enclosed area was recognized, which in the 15th century, was used for funerary practice. Eight shallow graves were identified, in a framework that suggests a regular spatial management