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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tapada del Anta Dolmen
Country: Spain Region: Extremadura Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Valencia de Alcántara
Latitude: 39.396710N Longitude: 7.3001W
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 Ambience:

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
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4 Access:

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
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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**Tapada del Anta dolmen** submitted by irundarra : Site in Spain, Cáceres: (Vote or comment on this photo)

This is a wonderful dolmen is a remote location. No noise of traffic and no buildings visible from the site. It is one of my favourites. Built in the typical local style with mutually supporting inward leaning orthostats and a delicate capstone, it is in excellent condition and well worth the effort trying to find it.

Tapada del Anta Dolmen is located in a remote part of western Spain near the town of Valencia de Alcántara. Its not really near a village, being out in the country. From Valencia de Alcántara drive south towards Portugal and at the end of the town take the CC98 / CC107 rural road towards La Fontaňera. After a kilometre take the right fork to stay on the CC98. After approximately 700 metres there is an earth road running to the right with a sign indicating that it is the dolmen trail.

Take this earth road. After 2.5 kilometres reach a T junction and here turn left (south). The narrower earth road bends round to the right and after 300 meters or so there is a junction with a lane coming from the left. Park here by the sign pointing towards the ridge south south east of this junction. There was another sign on the gate on the left side of this side road directing you towards the ridge.

Follow a plethora of tracks through the bush (woods for northern hemisphere folk) to find the dolmen 300 metres from the gate on the ridge. The coordinates that I recorded with a hand held GSP at the site are: 39.39671N and 07.30010W.

Hopefully my directions will make it much easier to locate for the next visitor!! April 2010.

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