Dolmen de Viera
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The Dolmen de Viera or Dolmen de los Hermanos Viera is a
Description
Like the Dolmen de Menga, it is built with an orthostatic technique: large stones standing upright.
The dolmen is covered by a
The left and right sides of the corridor appear to have consisted originally of sixteen slabs each; fourteen remain on the left and 15 on the right. Five larger slabs are intact in the roof, and there are fragments of two others; it would appear that three or four more have been entirely lost. The end of the corridor is a single large monolith with a square hole near its center. This and three other monoliths surround the chamber[2][6] There is a notable difference between the stones on the sides and those of the roof: the former is much more carefully worked and fit perfectly into the recesses made in the stones of the entrance and the floor.[citation needed]
History
The Dolmen de Viera was built in the
Current status
The site is owned by the Council of Culture of the
In 2016, the dolmens of Menga, Viera, and El Romeral were all inscribed as a
Gallery
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c Dólmenes de Antequera, nuevaacropolismalaga.org. Accessed online 2010-01-23.
- ^ Junta de Andalucía. Accessed online 2010-01-23.
- ^ José Antonio Quintana Campos, Dolmen de Viera Archived 2012-08-03 at the Wayback Machine, Patrimonio Histórico de Antequera «Dolmen de Menga». Accessed online 2010-01-23.
- ^ a b c d Dolmen de Viera, Antequera, Málaga, spanisharts.com. Accessed online 2010-01-23.
- Dolmen de Menga, which is identically aligned; in its case, there is a rock whose shadow is cast by the rising sun.
- ^ A diagram can be seen at Dolmen de Viera, Antequera, Málaga, spanisharts.com. Accessed online 2010-01-23.
- ^ Juan Fernández Ruiz; José Enrique Márquez Romero (2010), "Dólmenes de Antequera. Guía oficial del conjunto arqueológico" (PDF), Junta de Andalucía. Ministry of Culture, p. 62