A fragment of an amputated stele-menhir, it has been reported that the base served as a weight in a nearby wine press. Identified by José Pires Gonçalves, this preserved segment was re-erected onto a new footing in 1970 as part of an initiative by the Évora District Council and the Monsaraz Friends Group. In 1971, it received National Monument status. Engraved on both sides, the most decorated reveals the representation of a striped sun, a crosier and sets of undulating and zigzagging lines.

Menhirs and stele-menhirs can be in isolation, part of alignments, or form enclosures (cromlechs). This stele-menhir, like the Outeiro menhir, was likely isolated. These verticalised stones, honed or carved, were either symbolic landmarks of meaningful places or markers of routes in the landscape and could be related to other natural elements. They were places of meaning, participating in the organisation of the territory and the anthropised landscape. In the case of the Bulhoa menhir, with its reference to the solar elements, central to Neolithic cosmologies, and the crosier, a symbol of power and also a creation of this Neolithic agricultural and pastoral world, the engraved symbolism underlined this symbolic and communicational role.

Lifting the preserved part of the menhir onto a granite block (the criteria for the designated height are unknown).

Cardoso, J.L. (2015) – Nos 50 anos da identificação do megalitismo não funerário alentejano. O povoamento da região de Reguengos de Monsaraz no IV e III milénios a.C., Almadan, II Série. 19: 70-83.