Dolmen de Dofines
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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Le dolmen de Dofines est un site archéologique mégalithique qui se situe dans la commune de Rabós, dans la province de Gérone en Catalogne (Espagne).
Il est inscrit à l'Inventaire du patrimoine architectural de Catalogne.
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The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Dolmen de Dofines: the whole story
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Dolmen de Dofines, also known as the dolmen of Coll de Dofines, is a megalithic archaeological site in the commune of Rabós, in the province of Gérone in Catalonia, Spain. It lies in the region of Alt Empordà and forms part of the Site naturel d'intérêt national d'Albera. The monument is listed in the Inventaire du patrimoine architectural de Catalogne.
The dolmen is a corridor type, with a trapezoidal burial chamber reached by a narrow passage. The chamber measures 2 × 1,2 m inside and is 1 m high. No traces of paving were observed. One orthostat of the vault remains, leaning under its own weight after causing one side of the chamber to collapse.
The access corridor to the chamber has not been preserved. The tumulus was probably circular, with a diameter of 7 or 8 m, and was made up of gravel and soil. Its outer enclosure, probably a drystone wall, is no longer visible.
The monument is dated by typological estimate to 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. Published studies include Josep Tarrús i Galter's Poblats, dòlmens i menhirs. Els grups megalítics de l’Albera, Serra de Rodes i Cap de Creus, Girona, Diputació de Girona, 2002, and an article by Joan Badia i Homs, Benjamí Bofarull i Carreras i Gallofré, Enric Vigorós, Miquel-Dídac Piñero i Costa, El dolmen de Dofines, fita del territori del Monestir de Sant Quirze de Colera, in Annals de l'Institut d'Estudis Empordanesos, 16, 11-01-1983, pages 369–390.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmen de Dofines", shown in the original language.
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Dolmen de Dofines is a dolmen in Rabós, Spain. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. Elevation: 475 m. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmen de Dofines", shown in the original language.
HistoriqueSources for this section
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Il est situé dans la région de l'Alt Empordà et intégré au Site naturel d'intérêt national d'Albera (es).
DescriptionSources for this section
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Le dolmen du Coll de Dofines est un dolmen à couloir, constitué d'une chambre funéraire trapézoïdale dotée d'un couloir étroit. Les dimensions intérieures de la chambre sont de 2 × 1,2 m et 1 m de haut. Aucun vestige de dallage n'a été observé. L'orthostate de la voûte, inclinée sous son propre poids et ayant provoqué l'effondrement d'un côté de la chambre, est conservée.
Le couloir d'accès à la chambre n'a pas été conservé. Le tumulus, probablement de forme circulaire, avait un diamètre de 7 ou 8 m, et était constitué d'un remplissage de gravier et de terre. L'enceinte extérieure, probablement formée d'un mur de pierres sèches, n'est pas visible.
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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 “Dolmen de Dofines”, 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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What the evidence supports
Dates
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
Where it stands
Spain
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 42°24′18″ N, 3°04′36″ EFor a GPS or map app: 42.40497, 3.07676
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Dolmen de Puig d'Esquers4000–3000 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)Menhir del Mas Roquer2800–1800 BCE
Mas Roqué menhir2800–1800 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)menhir del Mas Noguer2800–1800 BCE
- DolmenDolmen de la Coma de Felis4000–3000 BCE
Dolmen del Solar d'en Gibert4000–3000 BCE- DolmenDolmen del Pla del Ras4000–3000 BCE
Dolmen de les Comes Llobes dels Pils4000–3000 BCE
Sources
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- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Dolmen de Puig d'Esquers2.2 km SE
- Menhir del Mas Roquer2.3 km SW
- Mas Roqué menhir2.4 km W
- menhir del Mas Noguer2.7 km SW
- Dolmen de la Coma de Felis3.5 km W
- Dolmen del Solar d'en Gibert3.9 km NW
- Dolmen del Pla del Ras3.9 km NE
- Dolmen de les Comes Llobes dels Pils4.0 km NW
- Dolmen del Barranc5.0 km W
- Dolmen de Mas Girarols I5.2 km W
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