Zaharreta 2 ekialde
DatedEst. 2800–1800 BCE
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Zaharreta 2 ekialde is a menhir recorded in Baztan, Spain. Its entries are Wikidata item Q66114698; the position in the catalogue is 43.1124° N, 1.4829° W. Wikidata gives an elevation of 687 m.
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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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About Zaharreta 2 ekialde
This kind of monument hereSources for this section
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In Spain menhirs of the western European megalithic type are relatively unusual compared with dolmens, but are common sights in the northern half of the country, where at least 500 have been reported. They are particularly common in the Basque Country, Navarre, northern Burgos and Palencia, Cantabria and the Pyrenees, usually standing alone or in small groups (cromlechs) in elevated places. Most appear to date back to the Stone Age. They are not usually associated with burials, though at the Menhir of Cuesta del Molino in Burgos burials were made at least 2,000 years after the menhir was raised. The Arlobi menhir is one of the most recent examples. Further down this page, About this kind of monument gives the whole of “Iberian menhirs”.
DatingSources for this section
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The Atlas shows 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE for this site, but that is a regional estimate for this kind of monument, not a date for this particular menhir. 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 “Menhir”): Standing stones are associated with the Beaker people of the European late Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 2800-1800 BC.
Landscape and neighbours
The catalogue lists 8 other sites within 1 km, 120 within 5 km and 350 within 10 km; 41 of them are also classed as menhir. That puts it inside a dense cluster of monuments. It is one of 68 menhir records among the 539 sites catalogued in Baztan, Spain.
Nearest to it are Zaharretako lepoa (0.0 km west, dolmen); Zaharreta 1 ekialde (0.1 km south-east, dolmen); Dolmen de Zaharreta 1 (0.1 km south-east, dolmen); Dolmen de Zaharreta 2 (0.2 km north-west, dolmen). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
Wikidata lists the site with the heritage status Archaeological site in Nafarroa. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q66114698), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Many such sites stand on private land; check local access rules and respect the monument and its surroundings.
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This page was built automatically from Wikidata (CC0), the heritage register named above and the regional article “Iberian menhirs”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), plus distances and counts computed from the catalogue coordinates. It contains no AI-written text.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Iberian menhirs
In Spain menhirs of the western European megalithic type are relatively unusual compared with dolmens, but are common sights in the northern half of the country, where at least 500 have been reported. They are particularly common in the Basque Country, Navarre, northern Burgos and Palencia, Cantabria and the Pyrenees, usually standing alone or in small groups (cromlechs) in elevated places. Most appear to date back to the Stone Age. They are not usually associated with burials, though at the Menhir of Cuesta del Molino in Burgos burials were made at least 2,000 years after the menhir was raised. The Arlobi menhir is one of the most recent examples.
Portugal's highest concentration is in the Alentejo, where the Menhir of Meada is the largest on the Iberian Peninsula. The Menhir of Outeiro, near Reguengos de Monsaraz in the district of Évora, is the second largest in Portugal: a granite monolith 5.6 metres high, about a metre across and an estimated eight tonnes. It was found lying on its side in 1969 by Henrique Leonor Pina and José Pires Gonçalves and re-erected about 1970, and was classified as a national monument in 1971. A hollow in its top has been read as a urethra, so that the stone is taken as phallic; that is an interpretation, not a fact.
The Almendres Cromlech near Évora is the largest group of structured menhirs on the Iberian Peninsula, and one of the largest in Europe. It belongs to the "megalithic universe of Évora", with parallels in the Portela de Mogos cromlech. Its beginnings have been put as far back as the sixth millennium BCE, which would make it extremely early, and it was rediscovered in 1966 by Henrique Leonor Pina.
When visiting, look for stones on high ground and note which way they face.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Menhir, Wikipedia: Menhir of Outeiro, Wikipedia: Almendres Cromlech, Wikipedia: List of menhirs · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Evidence & Lore
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 2800–1800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for menhirs in Spain; this site has not been dated itself. Standing stones are associated with the Beaker people of the European late Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 2800-1800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
Spain
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- Coordinates
- 43°06′45″ N, 1°28′59″ WFor a GPS or map app: 43.11239, -1.48294
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- DolmenZaharretako lepoa4000–3000 BCE
- DolmenZaharreta 1 ekialde4000–3000 BCE
Dolmen de Zaharreta 14000–3000 BCE
Dolmen de Zaharreta 24000–3000 BCE- DolmenZaharreta 2 mendebalde4000–3000 BCE
- Menhir (standing stone)Zaharreta bizkarra 2 ekialde2800–1800 BCE
- Menhir (standing stone)Zaharreta bizkarra 1 mendebalde2800–1800 BCE
- Menhir (standing stone)Kola2800–1800 BCE
Sources
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This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
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