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Dolmen from Menga, Antequera, Malaga.
This megalithic dolmen belongs to the "gallery type". It is placed in the great whole of burials of Antequera, -Malaga- and, as many others, is covered by a big tumulus. ![]() |
| As dolmens of this kind, it has no separation in rooms: that is, its chamber and its corridor belongs to the same unity. It can be mentioned that a little trace of division can be seen at the beginning of the gallery (only three stones), that communicates to a wider area of seven orthostates. It is closed by a bigger one. | |
![]() Inner part with three supporting pillars. |
![]() Entry to Dolmen from Menga |
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At the center of this gallery there are three pillars with a a square plan that do its function of supporting four on five big coverings -stones at the cover-, since they were put at the center of the joints between them. Date for this dolmen is circa 2.500 to 2.200 b.C. |
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