Dolmen of Son Bauló de Dalt

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Dolmen of Son Bauló de Dalt
Southwest view of the dolmen

Southwest view of the dolmen
Dolmen of Son Bauló de Dalt (Balearic Islands)
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Location in Mallorca
Coordinates 39 ° 45 '14 "  N , 3 ° 9' 31"  E Coordinates: 39 ° 45 '14 "  N , 3 ° 9' 31"  E
place Santa Margalida , Balearic Islands , Spain
Emergence around 1750 BC Chr.
Dimensions 16 m × 9.5 mdep1

The dolmen of Son Bauló de Dalt is a 1700 BC. Dolmen on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca , formed in the pretalayotic era . It is located in the industrial area of ​​Son Bauló, near the intersection of the roads from Santa Margalida to Can Picafort and from Alcúdia to Artà .

The large stone grave (span. Sepulcro megalítico ), which has long been unique in Mallorca, has a parallel discovered in 1995 in the dolmen of S'Aigua Dolça and in the collective grave of Ca na Costa (on the island of Formentera ).

The dolmen consists of an outer oval 16 × 9.5 meters made of sandstone slabs set into the ground. In the center there is a large square stone box made of four plates. Access is via an antechamber made of three side stones and the soul hole in the fourth plate of the stone box. The monument was discovered in 1961 by Juan Camps Coll and Josep Mascaró Passarius and excavated in 1964 by Guillermo Rosselló Bordoy .

Finds include the remains of five human bodies, flint, pre-Talayotic pottery, and copper objects.

literature

  • Javier Aramburu, Carlos Garrido, Vicenç Sastre: Guía Arqueológica de Mallorca. Olañeta Editor, Palma de Mallorca 1994, ISBN 84-7651-227-9 , pp. 191f.
  • Manuel Fernández-Miranda: Secuencia cultural de la prehistoria de Mallorca . CSIC Press, Madrid 1978, ISBN 978-84-00-04343-8 , pp. 42 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Guillermo Rosselló Bordoy: Excavaciones en el círculo funerario de Son Bauló de Dalt (= Excavaciones Arquellógicas en España , Volume 51). Madrid 1966, ISBN 978-84-0002148-1 .
  • Jordi Hernández-Gasch: Seguiment Arqueològic al Dolmen de Son Bauló (c. Del Talaiot, Polígon de Son Bauló, Santa Margalida) . 2015 (Catalan, digitized [accessed July 3, 2017]).

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