Type of site:
Dolmen with decorated orthostats
Place of location: Cabecillo del Zancarrón
Village/Town: Trigueros
Municipality: Trigueros (Huelva)
Region: Andalucía
State: Spain
Telephone: (+34) 959 305 075 / (+34) 627 940 357
Website: http://www.dolmendesoto.org/
E-mail: promociontrigueros@gmail.com
Natural Environment:
Trigueros is located very close to the city of Huelva, in an area of countryside situated at an average altitude of 76 m. The dolmen, located to the east of the town, is situated on a rather flat terrain with small hills, between the rivers Tinto and Odiel. It is an area with an abundance of water and vegetation and very suitable for the development of agriculture.
Archaeological evidences in the site:
Guided visits can see the mound on the outside and the inside. This megalithic monument is a “long passage grave”, measuring nearly 21m long and it is the longest dolmen in Huelva and one of the longest in Iberia. It consists of a chamber and “V”-shaped corridor which widens inside. Dolmen de Soto is one of over 200 megalithic monuments in the province of Huelva, of a kind that were built in western Europe in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. They are sepulchral constructions, generally for collective burials. The grave goods were quite poor and consisted of stone artefacts such as polished axe-heads and flint knives, as well as hand-made pottery, a conical bone bracelet, some marine fossils and several beads. The fact that the finds were more abundant in the other nearby dolmen suggests that this one was little-used and was soon abandoned and covered by earth.