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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: El Portillo de las Cortes Alternative Name: Aguilar de AnguitaCountry: Spain
NOTE: This site is 51.096 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Castilla La Mancha y Madrid Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Guadalajara Nearest Village: Aguilar de Anguita
Latitude: 41.058102N Longitude: 2.40584W
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 |
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| 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 |
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Michael Hoskin writes: Three other ‘sepulchres’ in the area were reportedly excavated long ago. Enquiries suggested that no trace now remains of two of these, at Alcolea del Pina and Anguita. At Garbajosa however we were taken by proud locals to the “dolmen”, which disappointingly proved to be formed of natural rocks of unusual shapes, beneath which tradition has it that there were prehistoric burials.
Source: Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (5) Orientations of Megalithic Tombs of Northern and Western Iberia MICHAEL HOSKIN and colleagues. In Archaeoastronomy Number 23 JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY 1998
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