La Pasada del Abad
The cromlech of La Pasada del Abad (also called La Parada del Abad ) is just outside Rosal de la Frontera in the province of Huelva in Andalusia in Spain and is accessible from the N-433 road in the direction of Seville .
It is a stone circle and not the remains of a Copper Age dolmen , of which six menhirs have been preserved. The megalithic complex consists of two large and one broken menhir made of black slate and three granite stones , two of which are broken off. The restoration of the monument, which had already been interpreted as a large stone grave or anta , resulted in a small stone circle, here called Cromlech , although the size of the monoliths of constructions of this type in the south of Portugal ( Cromlech by Fontainhas , Cromlech by Xerez ), where the stone circles are far more common than in Andalusia. The menhir number 2 has an engraving of bowls that is supposed to represent the big dipper . / Source: Megalithism in the province of Huelva.
literature
- A. Gonzáles Cordero, Gonzalo M. de Alvarado, González L. Munico, F. Piñón Varela: El poblado de el Cerro de la Horca (Plasenzuela, Cáceres). Datos para la secuencia del Neolítico tardío y la Edad del Cobre en la Alta Extremadura. In: Trabajos de Prehistoria 45, Madrid 1988, pp. 87-102.
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Coordinates: 37 ° 58 ′ 39 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 36.6 ″ W.