Dolmen de la Gutina

The Dolmen de la Gutina, also known as the Dolmen de la Gotina, stands near the commune of Sant Climent Sescebes, in the province of Girona, in Catalonia. It is listed in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia. The catalogue gives a broad typological estimate of 4000 to 3000 BCE for the monument.

It is a passage dolmen, dated to 3500 to 3200 BCE. Its chamber is semi-circular, measuring 2.75 m in length by 2.50 m in width, and the covering slab, or capstone, is supported by 7 orthostates, the upright stones that form the walls of the chamber. No other features, such as the length of the passage or the form of any mound, are described.

The first written mention of the dolmen dates from 1316. It was excavated in 1923 by Pere Bosch Gimpera and Lluís Pericot i Garcia, and it was restored in 1985. No finds from the excavation are described, so what the tomb held and how it was used are not known from the surviving account.

Spain has a great many megalithic tombs, and the Spanish dolmens in the Atlas 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. After its chamber was finished it was covered with soil and built up into a hill, and when it was opened in the nineteenth century archaeologists found the skeletons of several hundred people. Dolmens of this kind in Spain were therefore tombs, and the Gutina chamber belongs to the same tradition.

Dolmen de la Gutina is a dolmen in Sant Climent Sescebes, Spain. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmen de la Gutina", shown in the original language.