Dolmen del Prado de las Cruces
The Dolmen del Prado de las Cruces (also called Dolmen de Bernuy or Dolmen del Campo de las Cruces) in the west of the village of Bernuy-Salinero is a unique example of the megalithic architecture of the Anta type typical of the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the province of Ávila in the region Castile and León west of Madrid in Spain is. Prado means "meadow", Campo and Cruses "crosses" "field".
The monument is protected by a low stone wall. Consisting of 10 in situ sidestones through 3 of concrete blocks located added oval chamber of about 3.5 m width and 4.0 m length and the southeast oriented side also added, about 5.0 m long passage with a wide mouth, were of an approximately 22 m covered hill of earth and stones. All stones are more or less chipped.
The system was used on the basis of the finds in the late Neolithic and the early Bronze Age , i.e. in the last centuries of the 4th millennium and in the first third of the 2nd millennium BC. Chr.
literature
- J. Francisco Fabian: El Dolmen del Prado de las Cruces (Bernuy-Salinero, Ávila) Junta de Castilla y León 1997 ISBN 9788478467112
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Coordinates: 40 ° 40 ′ 21.5 ″ N , 4 ° 36 ′ 10.1 ″ W.