Dolmen de les Humbertes
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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El Dolmen de les Umbertes és un megàlit del neolític del terme municipal de Moià, (Moianès), inclòs a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arqueològic i Paleontològic de Catalunya.
Està situat en el camp de vol de Les Umbertes, al vessant sud-est de la intersencció entre les dues pistes de vol.
Es tracta d'una zona erma de matoll baix entre afloraments calcaris, en un pla amb lleugeres ondulacions entre la Costa Socarrada i el marge dret del torrent Mal amb presència de roures i boixos.
Dolmen corresponent al model de cista megalítica rectangular tancada, format per quatre lloses lleugerament inclinades cap a l'interior de la cista i orientat al sud-sud-est. La coberta es trobà fragmentada i desplaçada i el túmul força erosionat. La llosa de la coberta que es pot observar actualment no és l'original sinó que va ser encarregada pel Sr. Farràs copiant les dimensions de la que hi devia haver originalment.
El 1958 es realitzà l'excavació d'aquest megàlit per part de Ricard Batista i membres del GEMI. El material arqueològic i antropològic trobat dins del dolmen es trobava remenat i fora de context. En destaca un tros de terrissa amb decoració incisa consistent en un puntejat i també un altre fragment incís de manera perpendicular, a part d'altres fragments carenats. Hi ha també un tros de sílex blanc amb retoc bilateral, un esquerdill de sílex, una valva de pecten polida i amb un foradet, quatre peces de collaret d'esteatita i un fragment de dentàlium. Les restes antropològiques eren molt fragmentàries.
Durant les tasques de revisió de la Carta Arqueològica, el desembre de 2010, s'observà el bon estat de l'estructura, amb la llosa nova de coberta i un rètol indicatiu de pedra a la vora per ser vist des de la pista d'enlairament. L'interior estava mig reemplenat amb pedres i terra. No s'observaren materials arqueològics en superfície.
A aquest tipus de dolmen tipus cista megalítica amb túmul se li atribueix una cronologia des del Neolític final-calcolític fins al bronze antic.
Es va donar a conèixer per Ricard Batista a finals de la dècada de 1950.
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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 les Humbertes: the whole story
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- Wikipedia (Catalan): Dolmen de les UmbertesCC BY-SA 4.0
The Dolmen de les Humbertes is a Neolithic megalith in the municipal area of Moià, Moianès, in Spain. It lies in the field of Les Umbertes, on the south-east slope of the junction between two flying tracks, in low scrubland with limestone outcrops, oaks and boxwoods.
The monument is a closed rectangular megalithic cist made from four slightly inward-leaning slabs. It is oriented south-south-east. Its covering slab was found broken and displaced, while the mound was heavily eroded. The visible covering slab is a later copy made for Sr. Farràs with the dimensions of the original slab.
Ricard Batista and members of GEMI excavated the dolmen in 1958. Finds inside included decorated pottery, worked and unworked flint, a polished pecten shell with a hole, four necklace pieces made from steatite, and a dentalium fragment. The material was disturbed and out of context, and the human remains were highly fragmentary.
A review in December 2010 found the structure in good condition, with the replacement covering slab and an information sign beside it. The interior was partly filled with stones and earth, and no archaeological material was visible at the surface. A typological estimate places the monument between 4000 BCE and 3000 BCE.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Dolmen de les Umbertes", shown in the original language.
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- Wikipedia (Catalan): Dolmen de les UmbertesCC BY-SA 4.0
Dolmen de les Humbertes is a dolmen in Moià, Spain. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Dolmen de les Umbertes", shown in the original language.
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El Dolmen de les Umberters a megalitisme.sigmascorpii.com
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-07) from the cited Wikipedia article “Dolmen de les Umbertes”, 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
- 1950
Es va donar a conèixer per Ricard Batista a finals de la dècada de 1950.
Source - 1958
El 1958 es realitzà l'excavació d'aquest megàlit per part de Ricard Batista i membres del GEMI.
Source - 2010
Durant les tasques de revisió de la Carta Arqueològica, el desembre de 2010, s'observà el bon estat de l'estructura, amb la llosa nova de coberta i un rètol indicatiu de pedra a la vora per ser vist des de la pista d'enlairament.
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Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
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°47′10″ N, 2°07′46″ EFor a GPS or map app: 41.78610, 2.12956
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