Dolmen de Zaharreta 1

Dolmen de Zaharreta 1 is a megalithic archaeological site in the municipality of Baztan, in the Foral Community of Navarre, Spain. It lies southeast of the village of Elizondo at an altitude of 710 m, on the northwestern hill of Monte Lizardi, near Beartzun. The nearby Dolmen de Zaharreta 2 is its closest neighboring monument.

The dolmen stands in a forest of beech trees with ferns and moss. Its low tumulus is formed from large stones and measures 7,50 m in diameter. It reaches 1 m on the west side, 0,60 m on the north, and 0,100 m on the south, while on the east it is level with the ground. The central funerary chamber preserves 5 orthostates. Two are fragments of one slab, while three others came from the capstone on the west and northwest side.

The site has been associated with the Neolithic, Copper Age, and Bronze Age. It was discovered in 1971 by Francisco Ondarra Erdocia, and no excavation has been carried out. Its estimated date is 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE, based on typological comparison.

Dolmen de Zaharreta 1 is one of the monuments in the Alba-Kinto megalithic area. Spain has many megalithic tombs, from Andalusia in the south to Galicia in the north-west. At Antequera in Andalusia, the Dolmen de Menga, dated to about 3750 to 3650 BCE, is among the largest ancient megalithic structures in Europe. It stands 27.5 metres long, 6 metres wide, and 3.5 metres high, and was built with thirty-two megaliths, the largest weighing about 180 tonnes. Together with the nearby Dolmen de Viera and the tholos of El Romeral, it forms the Antequera Dolmens Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016.

Dolmen de Zaharreta 1 is a dolmen in Baztan, 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 Zaharreta 1", shown in the original language.