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In French, Spanish and many other languages a cromlech is a stone circle. In the Pyrenees, and especially in the Basque lands, the commonest stone circles are small burial monuments of the Iron Age. About 851 of these funerary cromlechs are documented in the Pyrenean region. Their diameters are 3 to 7 metres, with a burial in the middle, and the dead were not cremated inside the circle but at a nearby place, with only a handful of ashes carried to the monument. Burial customs changed over time, with a clear dominance of cremation in the Iron Age, and the ashes were placed in stone circles, mounds, caves, cists or urn fields. The full article, “Iberian and French cromlechs”, follows below under About this kind of monument.

The Atlas shows 3300 BCE to 2500 BCE for this site, but that is a regional estimate for this kind of monument, not a date for this particular stone circle. No excavation, radiocarbon sample or other measurement is recorded for it, so the real age could fall anywhere within the range, or outside it.

The range rests on this regional background (source: the Wikipedia article “Stone circle”): Stone circles are typical of north-western Europe and most were built between 3300 and 2500 BC.