Dolmen de Puig Rodó
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
El Dolmen de Puig Rodó és un megàlit d'inicis del mil·lenni III aC, en el Neolític mitjà, del terme municipal de Moià, (Moianès), declarat Bé cultural d'interès local.
Està situat al GR-3, GR-177 (lat: 41.81276, lon:2.09701), on hi ha un dipòsit d'aigua per als bombers i al vessant sud-oriental del Puig Rodó que li dona el nom.
Aquest Dolmen ja fou excavat a principis del segle xx per en J. Gudiol, i al 1961 per en Ricard Batista i en Joan Surroca. Aquestes intervencions, a més d'excavar la cambra i el corredor, també el reconstruïren recol·locant algunes lloses i la coberta del monument.
A la tardor de 2016 s'hi va dur a terme una excavació arqueològica per restaurar i consolidar el Dolmen.
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Where it sits in time
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 Puig Rodó: the whole story
Summary in EnglishSources for this section
- Wikipedia (Catalan): Dolmen de Puig RodóCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (Catalan): Dolmen de Puig RodóCC BY-SA 4.0
Dolmen de Puig Rodó is a dolmen in Moià, Spain. Wikidata describes it as: Historic building in Moià (Moianès, Catalonia). A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. Elevation: 998 m. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Dolmen de Puig Rodó", shown in the original language.
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
From the article
Dated moments in the story
- 2016
A la tardor de 2016 s'hi va dur a terme una excavació arqueològica per restaurar i consolidar el Dolmen.
Source
See it in 3D
An interpretive reconstruction of the monument, standing on the real ground at its exact point, under the sun for that place and season. Drag to look around it.
The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Photographs
4 photographs, each with its author and licence
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Lore
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°50′51″ N, 2°07′41″ EFor a GPS or map app: 41.84758, 2.12806
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.
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Sources
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- 01Wikidata Q73376518wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
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Credit
Text, licence and sources
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