Dolmen de Tires Llargues

The Dolmen de Tires Llargues is a megalithic archaeological site at Sant Climent Sescebes in the Alt Empordà, Spain. It is listed in the Inventari del Patrimoni Arqueològic i Paleontològic de Catalunya. The site stands on a small rise in flat, uncultivated land, close to the vinya de Tires Llargues, with an olive tree and a few holm oaks nearby.

This is a Middle Neolithic passage grave made of rough granite. Its burial chamber is subcircular, with eight surviving supports, while the roof has not been preserved. Inside, the chamber measures 2.1 metres long, 1.7 metres wide and 1.3 metres high. A mixed entrance passage built with dry-stone walls and slabs of local granite and quartz extends for 2.4 metres.

The dolmen was discovered in 1981 by Lluís Torres, owner of the property, while hunting. Joan Carles Torres excavated that year and recovered material from the chamber. Júlia Chinchilla and Josep Tarrús excavated it in 1983 and 1987, finding numerous archaeological materials in the passage and a few in the chamber. The finds include pottery, flint arrowhead and flake, and necklace beads.

Architectural evidence places the monument in the first phase of the Alt Empordà-Rosselló passage graves, during the first half of the fourth millennium BCE. The recorded dating is 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. Finds from the Middle Neolithic, final Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age show that the grave was reused over a long period, as was common among passage graves in the Albera.

Dolmen de Tires Llargues 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 Catalan article "Dolmen de Tires Llargues", shown in the original language.