Dolmen d'Arreganyats

The Dolmen d'Arreganyats is a megalithic site in the municipality of Espolla (Alt Empordà), in the province of Girona in Catalonia, Spain. It has been listed in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia since 1985. It belongs to the Espolla dolmens, a group of 12 dolmens and one menhir, the Castella menhir.

Salvador Sanpere i Miquel (1840-1915) first mentioned the site in 1881, and Manuel Cazurro i Ruiz (1865-1935) published a description in 1912. The dolmen dates from about 3450 BCE. It is a short trapezoidal gallery grave made of granite orthostats and a narrow passage of dry stone and granite slabs, in which fragments of pottery were found. The shape of the chamber and its short passage place it in the oldest phase of megaliths in the region.

The covered passage leads to a trapezoidal burial chamber with nine orthostats, a roof and a corridor with dry-stone walls. All its slabs are granite. The tumulus is circular, made of a fill of gravel and earth. The entrance faces southeast, on a gentle slope from northwest to southeast.

The roof is a single slab, well settled and slightly tilted forward. It has been put back in its original position. It is trapezoidal with a rectangular section, its inner face shows traces of rough shaping, and its edges are notched.

The corridor is built of dry-stone slate and granite walls and is 2.55 m long in total, about 0.80 to 0.90 m wide, and 0.70 m high at the highest preserved point; its original maximum height is thought to have been 1 m. The chamber measures 2.55 m long, 1.6 m wide and 1.5 m high inside. The dolmen is in good condition.

Dolmen d'Arreganyats is a dolmen in Espolla, Spain. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. Elevation: 363 m. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmen d'Arreganyats", shown in the original language.