Dolmen de la Clusella
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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El dolmen de la Clusella o Crusella és un megàlit del Eneolític del terme municipal de Castellcir, (Moianès), inclòs a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arqueològic i Paleontològic de Catalunya.
Es troba a uns 500 metres al nord-oest de la masia de la Clusella, a la Vall de Marfà. És un megàlit del tipus de cambra simple, de mida força gran. Aquests tipus de sepulcres pertanyen a l'edat de bronze, entre el 2000 i el 1500 aC. Té la forma de cista rectangular tancada. Hi ha cinc lloses, les dels costats més altes que les del costat sud. La llosa de la coberta ha desaparegut. Es conserven restes del túmul circular, molt erosionat. Hi aparegueren algunes peces dentals.
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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.
The full article
Dolmen de la Clusella: the whole story
In briefSources for this section
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The Dolmen de la Clusella, also called the Crusella, is a megalithic tomb in the municipality of Castellcir, in Moianès, Spain. It lies about 500 metres north-west of the masia de la Clusella in the Vall de Marfà and is included in the Inventari del Patrimoni Arqueològic i Paleontològic de Catalunya.
It is a fairly large chambered tomb with a rectangular cist. Five slabs remain, with those on the sides higher than the slab on the south. The covering slab has disappeared, while eroded remains of a circular mound can still be seen. Some dental pieces were also found at the site.
The monument is typologically estimated to date from 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. It was excavated without result by J.Sala Molas and excavated again by Batista in 1958, when the monument was studied and reconstructed. During an archaeological visit in 2016, made while reviewing the Carta arqueològica, its condition was found to match Batista’s drawing except for the southern closure of the cist, whose stones could no longer be distinguished.
Spain has many megalithic tombs, and the country’s dolmens extend 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. The three Antequera monuments were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Dolmen de la Clusella", shown in the original language.
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Dolmen de la Clusella is a dolmen in Castellcir, Spain. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. Elevation: 705 m. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Dolmen de la Clusella", shown in the original language.
HistòriaSources for this section
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Fou excavat per J.Sala Molas sense resultat i per Batista novament el 1958, que en feu l'estudi i aixecament.
Durant la visita arqueològica realitzada el 2016 amb motiu de la revisió de la Carta arqueològica es va comprovar que el seu estat correspon al dibuix d'aquest últim a excepció del tancament de la cista pel sud, del qual no se'n poden apreciar les pedres.
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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 la Clusella”, translated from Catalan. 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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Dated moments in the story
- 1958
Fou excavat per J.Sala Molas sense resultat i per Batista novament el 1958, que en feu l'estudi i aixecament.
Source - 2000
Aquests tipus de sepulcres pertanyen a l'edat de bronze, entre el 2000 i el 1500 aC.
Source - 2016
Durant la visita arqueològica realitzada el 2016 amb motiu de la revisió de la Carta arqueològica es va comprovar que el seu estat correspon al dibuix d'aquest últim a excepció del tancament de la cista pel sud, del qual no se'n poden apreciar les pedres.
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Evidence & Lore
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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
- 41°46′02″ N, 2°02′43″ EFor a GPS or map app: 41.76720, 2.04524
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Nearby
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