Dolmen del Coll de la Farella

The dolmen du Coll de la Farella is a dolmen on the border between Spain and France, between the communes of Cerbère (Pyrénées-Orientales) and Portbou (Alt Empordà).

The dolmen straddles the frontier. A small part of the tumulus lies on the territory of Cerbère, but most of the dolmen is on that of Portbou, although access is much easier from the French side.

It was reported by a young resident of Cerbère, Roger Cascino, and was identified and excavated by Pierre Ponsich and Jean Abélanet in 1963.

It is a passage dolmen. The capstone at the back is framed by two lateral orthostates, forming an H-shaped side, extended by the two slabs of the passage, which narrow the entrance that opens to the west, so the dolmen turns its back to the sea. The passage slabs are clearly lower, 1 m and 0,80 m high, than those of the chamber, 1,20 m on the north side, 1,40 m on the south side and 1,35 m for the back slab, which is at the east.

The tumulus is very worn down, and given the layout of the place it is hard to imagine that it ever covered the dolmen entirely. The chamber yielded no archaeological material, though potsherds without well-defined character were found in the passage and near the entrance. Most dolmens in France date to the Late Neolithic, about 4000 to 3000 BCE.

Dolmen del Coll de la Farella is a dolmen in Cerbère, France. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmen du Coll de la Farella", shown in the original language.