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The
necropolis is made up of four dolmenic cysts (tombs) and a small
passageway. Each cyst is situated at the centre of a series of
stone slabs arranged in concentric circles, able, presumably,
to contain the burial mounds of earth.
Their diameter varies from 5.3 - 8.5 m. In the outer circle of
every tomb the presence of menhirs is evident.
A small passageway is arranged slightly aside from the tombs,
and is surrounded on three sides by the remains of an almost circular
mound, which would have left the south-east facing entrance free.
This detail leads experts to think that the sepulchre may have
been used several times. Joined on to the passageway is a sacred
stone in quadrangular sections, enclosed by a series of vertical
slabs.
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from the menhirs, the three cysts were also undoubtedly linked
to the cult (0.40 x 0.50m), two of them situated in the space
near the meeting points of the funeral circles. In the same place
as well, there are two proto-anthropomorphic menhirs in a frontal
position.
The
complete lack of objects at the site does not allow us to establish
its real function: it is only a possibility that the cysts contained
food. The fact that the chemical composition of the land has almost
totally destroyed the skeletal remains, too, means that any attempt
to prove the exact function of the sepulchre are extremely difficult.
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