Dolmen del Collado de los Bastianes

The Dolmen del Collado de los Bastianes (also called Dolmen de Otíñar or Dolmen del Cerro Veleta) is located on the Cerro Veleta hill south of Jaén in Andalusia in Spain.

Dolmen del Collado de los Bastianes
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The Dolmen del Collado de los Bastianes (also called Dolmen de Otíñar or Dolmen del Cerro Veleta) is located on the Cerro Veleta hill south of Jaén in Andalusia in Spain.

The necropolis there consists of several burial mounds, although the most famous structure is a dolmen, the hill of which has completely disappeared. The structure consists of a recessed, roughly rectangular chamber made up of six orthostats and the split capstone. The large, once possibly circular, horizontal capstone has dimensions of 2.7 × 1.7 m. The walls of the chamber consist of almost rectangular, standing stones that are between 1.4 and 0.7 m wide. The average thickness of the approximately 1.0 m high stones is 30 cm. Shattered pottery and bones, including a jaw, were found in the dolmen, which was looted several times.

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