<< Our Photo Pages >> Dolmen de Bernuy - Passage Grave in Spain in Castilla y León
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen de Bernuy Alternative Name: Dolmen del Prado de las CrucesCountry: Spain
NOTE: This site is 12.058 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Castilla y León Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Ávila Nearest Village: Bernuy-Salinero
Latitude: 40.672648N Longitude: 4.602837W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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The site is signposted at the entrance of the village and can be accessed by an earth path branching to the left of the road. People are asked to leave any vehicle some 200m beyond the branch, and walk the remaining 400m to the monument. It can be clearly seen to the left of the path, as it is protected by a low stone fence.
The "Dolmen de Bernuy" is in fact a Passage Grave formed by an oval-shaped 3.5m wide by 4m long burial chamber which is accessed through a 5m long east-oriented (92º) corridor. The whole structure was covered by a tumulus (roughly 22m in diameter) which is now almost gone. Today, the orthostats of the chamber are slightly taller and bigger than the remaining ones forming the passage.
Excavation of the site has unearthed remains from two different time frames. The older ones date from the latest centuries of the 4th millennium BC, - the assumed date of construction, - while the more recent go back to the middle centuries of the second millennium BC.
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