<< Our Photo Pages >> Gamla Dolmen field - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Israel
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Site WatchSite Name: Gamla Dolmen fieldCountry: Israel Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Katserin Nearest Village: Ani'am
Latitude: 32.906300N Longitude: 35.749300E
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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In the Golan heights area there are hundreds of dolmens. A conspicuously large dolmen field makes up part of the Gamla Nature Reserve.
Apparently these dolmens were used as burial structures by nomadic tribes who buried their dead in central holy places, before the Bronze Age about 4,000 years ago.
Dolmens are built of large stones. Each dolmen is built of a large horizontal stone slab supported by two upright stone slabs. The name dolmen comes from the Breton (Celtic) language and it means a stone table (dol = stone; men = table). About 700 of the thousands of dolmens found in the Golan Heights are located around Gamla.
Some of the dolmens were reused for secondary burials long after they have been erected
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