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The dolmen of the Casa del Moro

Gejuelo del Barro, Tierra de Ledesma, Salamanca

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The dolmen of the Casa del Moro

Nature · Gejuelo del Barro, Tierra de Ledesma, Salamanca

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The dolmen of the Casa del Moro is located on the Muélledes estate, in the south-western corner of the municipality of Gejuelo del Barro, and was discovered in 1915 by César Morán Bardón. It is the best preserved in the province of Salamanca: a passage grave with a circular chamber about 3.30 metres in diameter, formed by ten granite orthostats, and a passage of more than 6 metres oriented south-east, of which three original covering slabs survive. The complex occupies the central part of a sub-circular mound 31 by 27 metres and a little over 1.5 metres in average height. Excavations have uncovered materials from the third millennium BC, typical of the dolmen culture, together with a later Bell Beaker occupation. It was declared an archaeological zone on 4 December 1997. The municipality, which in the 13th century was called Sexolo in the Leonese language, today has barely thirty-one inhabitants.

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