Dolmen del Gavatx
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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El dolmen del Gavatx és una estructura megalítica del municipi de Castellterçol, (Moianès), inclòs a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arqueològic i Paleontològic de Catalunya.
Es troba a l'oest del nucli de Castellterçol.
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The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Dolmen del Gavatx: the whole story
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Dolmen del Gavatx is a megalithic tomb in the municipality of Castellterçol, Moianès, Spain. It lies west of the centre of Castellterçol and is included in the Inventari del Patrimoni Arqueològic i Paleontològic de Catalunya. The monument is dated by typological estimate to 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE.
It is a closed rectangular cist measuring 2,20 m long, 1,30 m wide and 1,25 m deep. It has no surviving cover, and the remains of the cover were found scattered beside the mound. The excavated contents included human remains arranged in three burial layers separated by slabs, representing at least fourteen individuals.
The site was discovered and excavated by amateurs in 1949, and R.Batista subsequently studied it. Its attribution to the Chalcolithic period was based on the monument’s typology and materials recovered during excavation. During an archaeological visit in 2016, undertaken for revision of the Carta arqueològica, the arrangement of the slabs was found to be unchanged from Batista’s drawing published in 1961.
Objects found inside the cist included rough ceramic fragments with much brown-red and black degreasing, representing five undecorated bowls and one rim fragment decorated with cord impressions and fingertip marks. Other finds were a fragment of a flint knife, a rounded stone with longitudinal striations, and a fine-grained white sandstone bracelet decorated with parallel bands.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Dolmen del Gavatx", shown in the original language.
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Dolmen del Gavatx is a dolmen in Castellterçol, Spain. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. Elevation: 736 m. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Dolmen del Gavatx", shown in the original language.
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Es tracta d'un sepulcre de tipus cista rectangular tancada, probablement construït en el Calcolític, que presenta tres capes d'enterrament. La caixa fa 2,20 m de llarg per 1,30 m d'ample i té una profunditat d'1,25 m, sense coberta, les restes de la qual es trobarien disperses al costat del túmul.
Per la tipologia del monument i pels materials recuperats durant l'excavació se li atribuí una cronologia dins del calcolític.
Aquest jaciment fou descobert i excavat per afeccionats l'any 1949 i R.Batista l'estudià. Durant la visita arqueològica realitzada l'any 2016 amb motiu de la revisió de la Carta arqueològica es va comprovar que la disposició de les lloses no s'havia alterat respecte al dibuix de Batista publicat l'any 1961.
Les restes antropològiques inhumades, segons l'arquèoleg Bastista, estaven distribuïdes en tres capes d'enterrament, separades per lloses, i corresponien a un mínim de catorze individus. Així mateix es va recuperar fragments de ceràmica grollera amb molt desgreixant de color marró rogenc i negre, corresponents a cinc bols sense decoració i un fragment de vora amb decoració de cordons i impressions digitals. Altre material dipositat a l'interior de la cista són un fragment de ganivet de sílex, una pedra rodada amb estries longitudinals i un braçalet de sorrenca blanca de gra fi amb decoració de franges paral·leles.
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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 del Gavatx”, 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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- 1949
Aquest jaciment fou descobert i excavat per afeccionats l'any 1949 i R.Batista l'estudià.
Source - 2016
Durant la visita arqueològica realitzada l'any 2016 amb motiu de la revisió de la Carta arqueològica es va comprovar que la disposició de les lloses no s'havia alterat respecte al dibuix de Batista publicat l'any 1961. Les restes antropològiques inhumades, segons l'arquèoleg Bastista, estaven distribuïdes en tres...
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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
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- Coordinates
- 41°44′34″ N, 2°06′36″ EFor a GPS or map app: 41.74272, 2.11011
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