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<< Our Photo Pages >> Peira Roja - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Spain in Cataluña

Submitted by TheCaptain on Sunday, 05 September 2010  Page Views: 6026

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Peira Roja Alternative Name: Peira Arroja
Country: Spain
NOTE: This site is 5.719 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Cataluña Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Vielha  Nearest Village: Vaqueira
Latitude: 42.722567N  Longitude: 0.958744E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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Peira Roja
Peira Roja submitted by irundarra : Site in Pla de Beret (LLeida) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing stone covered in a red coloured lichen, near to the road on the Pla de Beret, in the Spanish Pyrenees.

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Peira Roja
Peira Roja submitted by irundarra : Site in Pla de Beret (LLeida) (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Peira Roja
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Peira Roja
Peira Roja submitted by irundarra (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Baqueira 219
Borda deth Uelh deth Garona.Beret.Spain.-
Orri. BAQUEIRA BERET. VAL d'ARAN. SPAIN.
Borda deth Uelh deth Garona.Beret.Spain.-

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 353m E 100° Pla de Beret 3 tumulus* Chambered Cairn
 466m SSE 162° Pla de Beret 12 tumulus* Ring Cairn
 889m NNE 31° Peira Hicada* Standing Stone (Menhir)
 1.1km SSW 203° Dolmen de Ulh deth Garona Burial Chamber or Dolmen
 1.2km SSW 207° Pla de Beret 2 circulo* Ring Cairn
 1.5km SW 215° Peira deth Uelh* Standing Stone (Menhir)
 12.6km NNW 340° Grotte Cigalere Cave or Rock Shelter
 16.3km NNE 20° Ayer Dolmen* Burial Chamber or Dolmen
 18.4km NNE 14° Vallée du Riberot* Ancient Village or Settlement
 19.6km NNE 28° Peyre Quillade* Standing Stone (Menhir)
 22.8km NNW 333° Piéjau cromlech Stone Circle
 29.0km W 261° Forau de la Llana* Stone Circle
 29.1km W 261° Remuñe Tumulus* Round Barrow(s)
 29.3km W 261° Remuñe Cromlech* Chambered Cairn
 33.4km N 10° Grotte de Mongautin Cave or Rock Shelter
 34.4km WNW 287° Peyra dé Peyrahita Standing Stone (Menhir)
 34.4km WNW 287° Cailhaou d'Arriba Pardin Standing Stone (Menhir)
 35.4km WNW 287° Mail de Soupène Cromlechs* Stone Circle
 35.4km WNW 287° Carnac Pyrénéen* Stone Circle
 35.5km WNW 287° L'alignement d'Espiaub* Stone Row / Alignment
 35.6km ENE 57° Grotte du Ker de Massat* Cave or Rock Shelter
 35.8km WNW 287° Sarrat de Cousseillot Cromlechs* Stone Circle
 35.9km NE 45° Abères ancient lead mine Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
 36.0km WNW 287° Cailhaou des Pourrics* Rock Art
 36.0km WNW 287° Alignement de Peyralade* Stone Row / Alignment
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Re: Peira Roja by ModernExplorers on Wednesday, 22 February 2017
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Street View: Peira Roja by holger_rix on Wednesday, 04 November 2015
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Re: Peira Roja by ModernExplorers on Tuesday, 11 November 2014
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If you want to see more than photos this site featured in the film we made about our tour in August 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66qxntFeTXM
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Re: Peira Roja by DrewParsons on Sunday, 05 September 2010
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There is a useful description in Catalan of this and other nearby prehsitoric sites at: http://www.alexandri.cat/pdf/muntanya/muntanya867_megalitisme.pdf
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    Re: Peira Roja by TheCaptain on Monday, 06 September 2010
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    Great find Drew - how do you find this useful stuff? I note that it gives UTM coordinates for the sites, rather than the mostly guess that I did today to make the site pages !
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      Re: Peira Roja by DrewParsons on Monday, 06 September 2010
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      I Googled it!! I tried to get a translation through Google Translate but it said the document was too long. I can read some Spanish and Catalan is similar, but I don't know enough to make a translation good enough for publication!! See you soon in Cheddar!!
      Drew
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    Re: Peira Roja, translation from Catalan using Google Translator by Andy B on Tuesday, 14 September 2010
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    Dave99 writes:
    Drew left a link to a PDF document on the page above, saying he couldn't get a translation from Catalan using Google Translator; well, nothing like a challenge on a Sunday Morning; I have attached a translation, via Google Translator, in MS Word.

    The translation is, with anything electronic, rough, but for the most part better than 10 years ago:

    La cara desconeguda del pla de Beret
    (The unknown face of the Pla de Beret)

    Itinerary for archaeological births
    Garona and Noguera Pallaresa

    Authors: Louis and Carmen Vidal Vila Vilaró Orriols

    ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
    The period that will include approximately
    Bronze medium (from 1300 to 1200 in 1000 to 900 BC), the
    Late Bronze Age (900 BC to 700 BC) and early age
    Iron (700 BC to 500 BC). These regions
    receive a wave of immigration, through the bronze, which
    Indians are anthropologically-old substrate
    dolichocephalic Mediterranean-receive contributions
    genetic and cultural-metallurgy of bronze-
    Brachycephaly groups from central Europe.
    Another step will determine the migration of similar age
    Bronze in the first Iron Age. These two
    demographic movements spread rapidly
    throughout north-eastern Spain, with a climate
    subboreal type, quite warm and dry, pushing
    many times the population towards the mountains
    high in the search of adequate grazing. The economic model
    of the Pyrenean valleys, however, is the heir
    Chalcolithic peoples culture and Beaker
    not experiencing many changes. With few resources
    livestock-based activities in sheep, goats,
    pigs and cattle-farming and cereal mountain
    face the rigors of the environment where they live.
    The wild boar and deer-hunting-and fishing-trout-river
    are also quite relevant in the domestic economy.
    The habitats were made up of small settlements
    cabins, more or less dispersed; this will not
    depleting resources too. The man was already almost
    sedentary; be moved only with the camps in cattle
    when the rigors of seasonal climate did
    necessary. In places the Pyrenees, more isolated, the iberització
    comes later and with little intensity, and the old
    traditions may have survived to the population
    pre-Roman in the case of Aran, cited by the airenosi
    Polybius in the third century BC.

    Funeral rites
    The funerary monuments of the tour we have
    place later in the megalithic in
    what habits have radically changed: passed
    the funeral for collective burial in dolmens
    and grottos, the individual cremation
    corpses in funeral pyre and subsequent deposition
    ashes in urns, ceramic urns, cineraria,
    structures that were deposited under mounds often
    Stone, grouped in small cemeteries known
    fields of mounds.
    This is mainly due to assimilation of the peoples
    autochthonous funerary rites brought by people from
    central Europe, with the expansion of
    bronze metallurgy. This custom is generalized
    around 1200 BC in southern Europe. In
    recent times through the Bronze and early
    Bronze definitively abandoned burial
    in megalithic tombs. In the Late Bronze Age, there are people
    Barrows ial'extrem central area of Western tradition
    Catalonia; culture populations
    Urnfield coastal area, and southern Catalonia
    there is a symbiosis of both cultures.
    With the arrival of the new Central and migration
    influence of new settlers Mediterranean spreads
    metallurgy of iron and the new form of burial
    that is to put the urns and funerary offerings
    directly into a hole in the ground (locular), lined,
    forming a necropolis Urnfield.

    Monuments
    Almost everything you see on this itinerary is after
    the megalithic Neolithic-Chalco

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