Cova d'en Daina

The Cova d'en Daina ( Catalan for "Cave of Daina" - Spanish Cueva de Daina ) is a great for the region dolmens of granite stones , the v 2200-1700. Was built east of the village "Romanyá de la Selva" near Santa Cristina d'Aro east of Girona in Catalonia in Spain .

The chamber is surrounded by a mound of earth with a curb ring 11 m in diameter made of almost completely preserved granite stones. The rectangular dolmen with antechamber is 7.6 m long, 1.7 m wide and 1.5 m high. The chamber made of 10 supporting stones and 3 preserved (from once four) ceiling slabs is separated from the antechamber made of seven side stones by a constriction of two posts and an overhang. There are three stones on the hill, which could have been cap or curb stones.

The north-west-south-east oriented dolmen was discovered in the 19th century. In 1957 excavations were carried out by Lluís Esteva Cruañas. He found ceramics, numerous bones, knife fragments and arrowheads from flint , beads of a necklace and seven teeth. In 1931 the dolmen was declared a national monument.