Dolmen del Portillo de las Cortes

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Dolmen del Portillo de las Cortes

The Dolmen del Portillo de las Cortes comes from the Neolithic period (about 4000 v. Chr.) And lies in a necropolis near Aguilar de Anguita in the province of Guadalajara in Spain .

The documentation of the dolmen made in 1912 is one of the oldest scientific achievements in archeology on the Iberian Peninsula . The fact that Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, 17th Marquis of Cerralbo (1845-1922), was primarily interested in the nearby Iron Age Celtiberian tombs explains the loss of the dolmen, its finds and the material associated with its exploration by the Marquis . There are few excavations in the province.

The Marquis material was not published until 1970 and in 1980 consolidations were carried out to preserve one of the few dolmens in the interior of the peninsula.

It consists of a corridor and a chamber with an original cantilever vault and remnants of the mound. Its furnishings, which were abundant in the past, lack ceramic and metal. In addition to a fragment of the idol, a considerable number of flint tools of various kinds, as well as arrowheads and polished stones, were recovered.

literature

  • Marquis de Cerralbo: Les fouilles d'Aguilar d'Anguita. Nécropole celtibérique. - Stèle à gravures. In: Revue des études anciennes . 15-4, 1913, pp. 437-439

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first, started in 1908, were in the upper valley of Jalón. His key success was the discovery of the 350 BC. The Celtiberian city of Arcóbriga (today Monreal de Ariza ), which was founded by the Arevacians and was listed in Roman sources as Arcobragensis and has been sought for generations - a city of the same name (today Arcos de Valdevez ) is located in Portugal. Based on his multi-faceted analysis, Cerralbo correctly narrowed the search area and discovered the site where excavations continued for decades.

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Coordinates: 41 ° 3 ′ 22.4 "  N , 2 ° 24 ′ 26.1"  W.