Menhir from Castellruf
The menhir of Castellruf (also called Menhir de Can Gurri) is in the Parc de la Serralada Litoral , in the center of Santa Maria de Martorelles in the Comarca Vallès Oriental in Catalonia in Spain . It comes from the Neolithic (5500–2200 BC).
It is a more or less square granite block with sides of 0.45 meters and a height of 1.5 meters. It is worked on all four sides and on one there is an inscription that resembles a letter B, a 3 or an 8. This could point to the city of Bætulo (the Roman Badalona). But the inscription that gives a 3 or 8 also exists on other megaliths.
The stone was still in Pi d'en Casals in the forest of Mates in 1960, on the ridge that leads from Cerro d'en Galzeran to Castellruf, near the dolmen of Castellruf and relatively close to the dolmen of Can Gurri . In the absence of the interest of the local administration, the stone was taken to Santa Maria de Martorelles in 1965 on a private initiative using a forklift, where it was placed in a public square. In 2001 and 2004 excavations were carried out at the old site of Imma Bassols, but no materials were found.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 31 ′ 9 " N , 2 ° 15 ′ 14" E