Can Gurri dolmen

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Can Gurri dolmen

The Dolmen of Can Gurri (also called Dolmen del Colle de Can Gurri, Dolmen de la Font d'en Gurri or Roca d'en Mayal) is located in the Bosc de Can Gordi (forest) south of Vallromanes , in the Parque de la Serralada Litoral in Martorelles in the Comarca Vallès Oriental in Catalonia in Spain .

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The chamber is about 2.4 meters long and 1.2 meters wide. The vertical bearing stones of the chamber and part of the corridor are preserved. The whole thing gives a useful idea of ​​what a catalan gallery-type dolmen with sloping walls is. When Antoni Guilleumes discovered the dolmen in 1952, it was still in a part of the hill about ten meters in diameter (today 7.9 meters). In 1955, Josep Estrada i Garriga found a plaster made of three layers of stone in the chamber, under which there was a bronze dagger , arrowheads , a spearhead and Hallstatt-era ceramic fragments of the bell beaker culture . This allows the usage phase of the dolmen to go back to the 2nd millennium BC. To lay. According to Josep Maria Cuyàs i Tolosa (1976), a forest fire appears to have been involved in the destruction of the dolmen.

Nearby is the Castellruf dolmen .

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Coordinates: 41 ° 30 ′ 59 "  N , 2 ° 16 ′ 51"  E