Menir da Vilarinha 1

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”.

Typological estimate, not a date for this site: monuments of this kind in this region are normally dated 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. The range comes from what is known about menhir monuments in Portugal; nothing measured on this site itself is on record, so it may be younger or older than the range suggests.

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.