Dolmen de Santa Magdalena
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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Overview
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What the sources say
El Dolmen de Santa Magdalena és un monument megalític del terme municipal de Moià, (Moianès), inclòs a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arqueològic i Paleontològic de Catalunya.
Es troba a la zona central de la Serra de Santa Magdalena, dins el terme municipal de Moià, a l'extrem sud-oest d'aquest terme.
Dolmen orientat en direcció nord-sud amb una lleugera inclinació cap al sud-est. Consisteix en un dolmen de grans dimensions, de cambra simple, que conserva la llosa frontal i la coberta, que estava desplaçada. Hi manquen les dues lloses laterals i la posterior. El material de l'aixovar que aparegué en el decurs de l'excavació no és massa destacat, tan sols algunes dents d'adult i dues peces de collaret de pecten. La llosa de coberta presenta gravats d'època medieval probablement representant una creu rodejada per tres xiprers a cada banda, imatge que es pot relacionar amb el culte funerari. El túmul, circular, està molt erosionat.
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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 Santa Magdalena: the whole story
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The Dolmen de Santa Magdalena is a megalithic monument in the municipal area of Moià, Moianès, in Spain. It lies in the central part of the Serra de Santa Magdalena, at the extreme south-west of the municipal area. It is included in the Inventari del Patrimoni Arqueològic i Paleontològic de Catalunya.
The monument is a large, simple-chambered dolmen aligned north-south, with a slight inclination towards the south-east. Its frontal slab and cover slab survive, although the cover slab had been displaced. Both side slabs and the rear slab are missing. The circular mound that covered the structure is now heavily eroded.
Excavation produced only a small and unexceptional group of grave goods: some adult teeth and two pieces of a pecten necklace. The monument is dated by typological estimate to 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No more detailed history of its use or excavation is given here.
The cover slab bears medieval engravings, probably showing a cross surrounded by three cypresses on each side; this image may be connected with funerary worship. More generally, Spain has many megalithic tombs, including the Antequera Dolmens Site, where the Dolmen of Menga is dated to about 3750 to 3650 BCE and the Dolmen of Viera and tholos of El Romeral 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 Santa Magdalena", shown in the original language.
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Dolmen de Santa Magdalena is a dolmen in Moià, Spain. Wikidata describes it as: dolmen in Castellcir, Spain. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. Elevation: 726 m. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Dolmen de Santa Magdalena", shown in the original language.
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El Dolmen de Santa Magdalena en el seu entorn, a l'Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya
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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 Santa Magdalena”, 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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Lore
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°47′42″ N, 2°03′39″ EFor a GPS or map app: 41.79490, 2.06080
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- 01Wikidata Q17600333wikidata.org
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