Salt d'en Peió
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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What the sources say
El Salt d'en Peió és un monument megalític situat a Sant Climent Sescebes, (Alt Empordà), inclòs a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arqueològic i Paleontològic de Catalunya.
Es troba al costat de l'antic camí de muntanya avui en desús, amb tres tombes.
Al perímetre extern del túmul hi ha un anell de contenció, format per un cromlec de lloses grans clavades. Just per davant seu es va observar un mur de pedra seca (amb tres filades conservades en algun punt), que el resseguia internament. Al davant del dolmen, on comença el pendent, existeix una segona plataforma tumulària, separada entre 2,5 i 3 metres de la primera. Queda ben marcada per un segon cromlec de lloses clavades, molt més perdut, però, que l'anterior. Aquesta segona plataforma servia de contrafort del túmul principal.
Fou localitzat l'any 1985 per Martí Cufí de Vilartolí, que el mostrà als membres del GESEART, Dídac Piñero i Enric Carreras. L'any següent (1986) fou excavat per Josep Tarrús i Júlia Chinchilla. Aquestes excavacions permeteren documentar la peculiar arquitectura d'aquest megàlit i gairebé un centenar de fragments de ceràmica d'entre els que cal destacar 32 fragments de vasos, gobelets i cassoles carenades campaniformes, 23 d'ells d'estil Pirinenc, a més de set fragments d'una urna del bronze final.
Pels materials arqueològics que s'hi ha recuperat (vasos campaniformes d'estil Pirinenc) i pel tipus arquitectònic, Tarrús (2002) el situa cronològicament a la darrera fase dels sepulcres megalítics de l'Alt Empordà/Rosselló, és a dir, de la segona meitat del III mil·lenni aC.
Es van trobar diversos objectes que foren duts al Museu Arqueològic de Sant Pere de Galligants de Girona.
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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.
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Salt d'en Peió: the whole story
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Salt d'en Peió is a dolmen at Sant Climent Sescebes in Alt Empordà, Spain. It stands beside an old mountain road that is no longer in use, and the site includes three tombs. The main monument is surrounded by a ring of large upright slabs forming a containment cromlech.
Just in front of the main dolmen, a dry-stone wall follows the inner edge of the perimeter, with three courses still preserved in places. A second tumular platform lies ahead where the slope begins, separated from the first by 2,5 to 3 metres. It is marked by another cromlech of upright slabs, though this one is much less well preserved. The second platform served as a buttress for the main tumulus.
Martí Cufí de Vilartolí located the site in 1985 and showed it to Dídac Piñero and Enric Carreras of GESEART. Josep Tarrús and Júlia Chinchilla excavated it the following year in 1986. Their work documented the monument’s unusual architecture and nearly a hundred ceramic fragments, including 32 from bell-shaped vessels, beakers and bowls, 23 of them in Pirinenc style, plus seven fragments from a Late Bronze Age urn.
Based on the recovered bell-shaped vessels in Pirinenc style and the architectural type, Tarrús (2002) placed the monument in the final phase of the megalithic burials of Alt Empordà/Rosselló, in the second half of the III millennium BCE. The broader dating given is 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE by typological estimate. Various recovered objects were taken to the Museu Arqueològic de Sant Pere de Galligants de Girona.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Salt d'en Peió", shown in the original language.
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Salt d'en Peió is a dolmen in Sant Climent Sescebes, Spain. Wikidata describes it as: megalith 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 "Salt d'en Peió", shown in the original language.
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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 “Salt d'en Peió”, 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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Dated moments in the story
- 1986
L'any següent (1986) fou excavat per Josep Tarrús i Júlia Chinchilla.
Source - 2002
Pels materials arqueològics que s'hi ha recuperat (vasos campaniformes d'estil Pirinenc) i pel tipus arquitectònic, Tarrús (2002) el situa cronològicament a la darrera fase dels sepulcres megalítics de l'Alt Empordà/Rosselló, és a dir, de la segona meitat del III mil·lenni aC.
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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
- 42°25′02″ N, 2°58′15″ EFor a GPS or map app: 42.41722, 2.97083
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