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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Matarrubilla Dolmen
Country: Spain
NOTE: This site is 8.705 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Andalucía Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen

Latitude: 37.405515N  Longitude: 6.069759W
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Matarrubilla Dolmen
Matarrubilla Dolmen submitted by Creative Commons : A monument indexed in the Spanish heritage register of Bienes de Interés Cultural under the reference RI-51-0000913 Date: 21 September 2011 Author: Nicolasharo This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Spain license. Site in Andalucía Spain (Vote or comment on this photo)
A passage grave consisting of a corridor of about 29 meters long, connected to a circular section of 2.72 m. in diameter. The corridor is lined with alternating layers of stone and earth, covered with limestone slabs and measures approximately 1.30 m. wide and 2 m tall.

The burial chamber is circular of 2.72 m. in diameter and 2m. in height. The granite slab enclosed by a fafricada sandstone dome. It contains a black stone sink and marble-square shaped as an altar or table of offerings.

Note: Economic crisis saves Spanish ruins but buries their future
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Matarrubilla Dolmen submitted by holger_rix : Dolmen de Matarrubilla Site in Andalucía Spain Este tholos se descubrió en 1917. Tiene un corredor de unos 30 m. El monumento ha sido bastante intervenido con resultados discutibles. Su mauor interés es la presencia del gran bloque de mármol que se muestra en la imagen y que ocupa la mayor parte de la reducida cámara. El bloque está tallado y rebajado y se fue utiliizado como altar. I... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Economy crisis saves Spanish ruins but buries future by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 January 2012
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Spain's pre-historic burial chambers have survived invasion, war, a long dictatorship and a property bubble which paved over vast tracts of the country.

But the economic crisis which ended the building boom that buried some of the country's greatest archaeological treasures under shopping malls and new housing may also be bad news for those hoping to provide lasting safeguards for Spain's remaining tholos dolmens or passage tombs.

The Aljarafe region outside the city of Seville in southern Spain, with a rich Arabic and Christian history, is believed to house Europe's most extensive grouping of tholos dolmens, dating back some 5,000 years.

Many of these archaeological treasures were buried under new construction during a decade-long building craze that swept across Spain and left 1.5 million vacant homes when it ended.

A debt crisis ravaging Spain's economy has saved some of the dolmens by freezing funds for construction. But the credit crunch also means scarce money to explore these little-known Copper Age settlements and turn them into tourist centers.

"It's as if we had a gold mine under our feet; all we need is the investment muscle to reap the benefit. I don't see this latent potential in any other industry or sector," Juan Manuel Vargas, a local archaeologist said.

Vargas is head archaeologist in Valencina de la Concepcion, a small town outside of Seville and home to many dolmens, two of which -- La Pastora and Matarrubilla -- are open to the public and receive about 10,000 visitors a year.

Dolmen constructions are large stones stood upright to support a large flat boulder like a roof or gigantic table. They were erected around Western Europe, from Ireland to the Baltics, starting about 7,000 years ago. Human remains have been found in or near many of them, leading to the theory that they are tombs. In the passage dolmens, the stone structure forms the entry way to a burial mound.

La Pastora dolmen in Valencina boasts the longest corridor ever discovered in a passage grave in Europe, while its sister Matarrubilla houses a stone altar inside its burial chamber offering clues into the funerary rituals of early settlers.

Driving along a dirt road to La Pastora past rolling hills dotted with olive trees under a brilliant sun it is easy to imagine the centuries of civilizations who have inhabited this mystical land. But the visitor is catapulted back into the present upon reaching the dolmen.

The chamber sits beside a giant telecommunications tower, and empty beer bottles are strewn inches from an archaeological site which provided a range of ancient artifacts before excavations were halted after the funds ran out.

"It's a problem of mentality. After seeing it every day, our residents aren't aware of what they're living next to," Vargas explained.

The youth are not the only ones who have failed to recognize the historical value of the land underneath their beer bottles.

The Montelirio dolmen, a unique two-chamber structure in neighboring Castilleja de Guzman, was nearly suffocated by plans to build a supermarket and a retirement home.

APPARENT LEADER BURIED WITH 19 WOMEN

In 2007, archaeologists discovered the remains of what they thought was a chieftain in Montelirio, and to their surprise, 19 women believed to have drunk a poison in a ritual to accompany their leader on his journey to the netherworld.

The remains of the women sit in a circle in a chamber adjacent to the bones believed to be of their chief.

"Montelirio offers important clues into these societies and their possible burial rituals," archaeologist Vicente Aycart said, adding: "Who knows? Maybe this was a matriarchal society and that one man was their favorite eunuch!"

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Dolmen de Matarrubilla by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 January 2012
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Dolmen de Matarrubilla, Valencina de la Concepción, Sevilla.

Dolmen-sepulcro de corredor, consta de un pasillo de unos 29 metros y una cámara de 2,72 m. de diámetro.

El corredor que esta revestido de mampostería, alterna capas de piedra y tierra, tiene una cubierta de losas calizas y mide aproximádamente 1,30 m. de ancho y 2 m. de altura.

La cámara mortuoria es circular de 2,72 m. de diámetro y de 2m. de altura. Esta cerrada por una losa granítica que termina una falsa cúpula fafricada con arenisca. Contiene una pileta de piedra negra -marmol- de forma cuadrangular a modo de altar o mesa de ofrendas.

Como curiosidad, en la entrada se observan unas jambas de caliza.

http://www.spanisharts.com/arquitectura/imagenes/prehistoria/dolmen_matarrubilla.html
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