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Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain

Submitted by Stone_de_croze on Monday, 08 May 2006  Page Views: 13658

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Cuevas de Menga y Viera, that stunning golden giant of megalithic building is the most impressive site I have ever seen. Facing the famous Pena de los Enamorados mountain that resembles a face looking to the heavens, Cueva de Menga has been recently re-excavated by the looks of it.

It looks like some kind of visitor centre is being prepared along with, stragly, a large lump of rock on some rollers, presumably to show us all how it's done. The rock they have on show, however, is about 1m square and does not even begin to compare to the main capstoneof La Cueva which is reported to weigh over 160 tonnes.

To see this itself is reason enough to drive up from Malaga but I simply was not prepared for what we saw on entering. At the back of this giant dolmen, in the centre of the floor, is a 30m deep well perfectly carved from the bedrock and with water at its bottom!

Could this have been the reason for building the 'tomb' was it to protect the water from the searing Spanish heat? Is that what all dolmens are for, protection? Protection of foodstuffs, water supplies, youngsters? Certainly the building of Churches near springs may actually suggest the building of churches near megalithic sites which had been built near or on springs in the first place.

The rumoured carvings on the entrance support have been cleaned up and I enclose new photos. (I have never seen any photos of these on the web before). Everybody refers to these as anthropomorphic stick-like figures - to me they are surely another attempt to Christianise 'Pagan' monuments - surely they are just crosses?
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Re: Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain by Anonymous on Sunday, 01 February 2009
as a frequent visiter to this site over many year i was absolutely amazed to find this roman well.i have spent many a happy day inside this dolmen standing directly over well.it seems it was onlt rediscovered in the past couple of years.could i be right in saying this is unique anywhere in europe.since seeing this i,ve yet to find any other examples in any of the standard books on subject.also the allinement of the passage way looking towards the head shaped mountain make this a most see site.its the oldest 4000bc,the largest in iberia,only dolmen with spirals carved,the roman well...the site stands on a hill side at a high level above water table.not a practible place...i highly recommend this site.also in area is cueva de pilates,amazing paleolithic art,el torcal an incredible limestone formation...lots of luck dan beattie
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Re: Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain by Anonymous on Tuesday, 27 January 2009
why would you build a well on a hilltop when you have plenty of watereaccess anywhere but there?
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Re: Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain by Anonymous on Tuesday, 25 March 2008
was told in the new visitor center that the 90m well was dug in roman times not buy "the ancients".not so mysterious now but certainly unique in iberia.a truley amazing site.if visiting check out cueva pilates and the cave system in rincon de victoria to see roman use of older site.the rock forms in these cave are one offs.all are within 50ks.these 3 sites are well worth visiting
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Re: Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain by Anonymous on Tuesday, 25 March 2008
the well was carved out in roman times
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Re: Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain by Anonymous on Tuesday, 05 February 2008
Well its hard to say first of all when the carvings where done, but one is definitely the symbol of Neptune, the star below is the remains of a star fish fossil, which would have most definitely been chosen, whether to depict the star representing Venus would be just speculation. Then we have the standard cross a bit further along. i feel the key is the female head of the mountain with which the dolmen is purposely aligned.this of course is something that cannot meddled with. It seems like a temple dedicated to life, with the well in its center and mother earth ahead. Any other ideas?
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Re: Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain by Anonymous on Sunday, 12 August 2007
The well in the dolmen is not to preserve water. There are two other chambers either side connecting to the main one. It lines up with a fourth mound which hides another chamber, Although no excavation has taken place it easy to see it against the landscape of other chambers. There is plenty of water around Antequera, although the nearby salt lake is now a deposit for Flamingos, years ago it was a flourishing area of commercial activity and sacred eventing.
This is a truly sacred place. The 100 physical remains are those of Elders who contributed to the spiritual needs of the area. They knew when and why the site was to be closed, just like a new chapter of energy was making its pathway across the globe. This energy change is about to recreate itself within those who are connected to this area. A new era is awakening which will spread across the whole world. Even as I write there are experiments with those spiritual teams on other realms to make this a certainty. My friends and my...

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    Re: Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain by Anonymous on Tuesday, 05 December 2017
    Have just read your comments Colin - now 10 years later on. I would wholeheartedly agree with you on the new Energies and that many on all sides are working on the coming changes. For my own take on this please have a look at https://www.roryduff.com
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Re: Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain by Anonymous on Wednesday, 18 April 2007
Yhanks for nice note.
In the dolmen there is so many things which do not seems to tell us that these is a burrial place, but a place where people live in.
On the stone in the middle there is small lock in which people could have three block to make different room and other walls or like.
So in my mind Menga is an earlier house and Viera can then be the place for burial, but there is something closed.
jens v bruun
http://www.megalith.dk
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Re: Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain by Anonymous on Thursday, 25 May 2006
Oh, yes, and Antequera is the most important place in Andalucia, southern spain. It was even considered to be capital of andalucia. It has like 38 churches..which is very very many compared to the size of the town. The name antequera is believed to be given by the romans (meaning "the old")when they found it, which says alot, I think. It was definitely of great importance even in ancient times. It held its stand against the chatolic forces 82 years longer than the rest of the region. They even beat Al Hambra easier, if you've been there, you will understand how hard that would have been. They even sent 15 000 backupsoldiers to help taking Antequera, which did'nt help. 82 years is a long time, in a war/siege and tells something about the importance of the place.
There are 3 dolmens in the region. Menga is the ancient one, the two others are not as impressive, but tells us something about ancient times. The more modern it is, the smaller stones they use. The latest one is more like...

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Re: Well found in dolmen in Antequera, Spain by Anonymous on Thursday, 25 May 2006
I visited this place yesterday, and was blown away by it.. wow.

Facts printed on the sites posters outside the dolmen said something other than what you printed. 150 tons and the well was 19.55 metres deep. But i must admit, it seemed much deeper, and it might be aswell. -i don't know how far they've come in in the excavation when the poster was printed.

Just the sight of that very nice round hole, straight down in the bedrock blew my mind. And the stones, my god they where big. Especially the inner most "roof tile". It was huuuge, and how thick was hard to say, maybe a meter or two. I took about 500 pics of the place, i might show you some when i get back to norway. The cross and venus symbol in the entrance was easy to see and not covered or removed in any way. But theese might have been made in later times since they are scratched into the surface of the stone. But moving those stones more than 1 km and putting them up like that in the late stone age is insanely hard to...

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