Alkardur 1 mendebalde (Otzola)
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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Les dolmens d'Alkardur sont un double site mégalithique situé dans la commune de Basaburua, dans la Communauté forale de Navarre (Espagne). Ils font partie de la zone mégalithique d'Aritz Belate.
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Alkardur 1 mendebalde (Otzola) is a dolmen forming part of the double megalithic site known as the Dolmens d'Alkardur. The site stands in the municipality of Basaburua, in the autonomous community of Navarre, Spain, and belongs to the Aritz Belate megalithic area. Alkardur 1 lies north of the village of Beartzun at an altitude of 885 m.
The available information does not describe the dolmen’s present structure, its individual stones, its size or the condition of its chamber. The wider Dolmens d'Alkardur site includes Alkardur Dolmen 2 as well, but no further details about its construction or survival are provided here.
Alkardur 1 was discovered in 1985 by Peio López Hernández. It has been associated with the Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age. A typological estimate places it between 4000 BCE and 3000 BCE.
The site was discussed in Francisco Ondarra Erdozia’s Nuevos monumentos megalíticos en Navarra (III), published in 1988, and in Patxi Ripa Vega’s Monumentos megalíticos de Navarra 1.890–1.990, published in 1991/1992. It also appears in the 2006 Catálogo megalítico del Valle de Baztán.
Wikidata describes it as: Megalithic monument in Navarre, protected archeological heritage.
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- Wikipedia (French): Dolmens d'AlkardurCC BY-SA 4.0
Alkardur 1 mendebalde (Otzola) is a dolmen in Basaburua, Spain. Wikidata describes it as: Megalithic monument in Navarre, protected archeological heritage. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. Elevation: 885 m. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmens d'Alkardur", shown in the original language.
HistoriqueSources for this section
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- Wikipedia (French): Dolmens d'AlkardurCC BY-SA 4.0
Le dolmen d'Alkardur 1, découvert en 1985 par Peio López Hernández, est situé au nord du village de Beartzun, à 885 m d'altitude. Il a été associé aux périodes néolithique, âge du cuivre et de l'âge du bronze.
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Dolmens d'Alkardur”, translated from French. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Dolmens of Andalusia, Extremadura and Galicia
Spain has a great many megalithic tombs, and the Atlas's Spanish dolmens run from Andalusia in the south to Galicia in the north-west. The finest are at Antequera in Andalusia, where the Dolmen of Menga, dated to about 3750 to 3650 BCE, is among the largest ancient megalithic structures in Europe. It is 27.5 metres long, 6 metres wide and 3.5 metres high, built with thirty-two megaliths, the largest weighing about 180 tonnes. After the chamber was finished it was covered with soil and built up into the hill seen today; when it was opened in the nineteenth century archaeologists found the skeletons of several hundred people. The Dolmen of Viera stands 70 metres away, and the tholos of El Romeral lies about 4 kilometres off; the three were inscribed as the Antequera Dolmens Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 2016.
In the south-west, the Dolmen de Soto at Trigueros in Huelva province is a Neolithic tomb estimated to date between 3000 and 2500 BCE, one of about 200 Neolithic burial sites in the province. It was found in 1922 when its owner, Armando de Soto Morillas, wanted to build a house; the German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier found eight bodies in a fetal position with artefacts, and its engraved and painted uprights have been studied more recently.
In Galicia and Portugal a dolmen is an anta, and in Catalan-speaking areas dolmens have folk names such as cova (cave), caixa (crate or coffin), taula (table) and arca (chest). These names are tradition: they record what people made of the monuments, not what they were built for.
When visiting Menga, look at the great capstones from inside the corridor, and at the way the mound was built up over the chamber.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Dolmen of Menga, Wikipedia: Dolmen of Viera, Wikipedia: Antequera Dolmens Site, Wikipedia: Dolmen de Soto, Wikipedia: Dolmen · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- 1985
Le dolmen d'Alkardur 1, découvert en 1985 par Peio López Hernández, est situé au nord du village de Beartzun, à 885 m d'altitude.
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Est. 4000–3000 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for dolmens in Spain; this site has not been dated itself. Most dolmens date from the Late Neolithic period (4000-3000 BCE); the Dolmen of Menga in Andalusia dates to about 3750-3650 BCE.Source for this date
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- Coordinates
- 43°02′43″ N, 1°49′15″ WFor a GPS or map app: 43.04531, -1.82082
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