Cabana Arqueta Dolmen Verified listing

Passage tomb with long chamber and narrow passageway, from the end of the 4th millennium BC, made of slate and granite and built on flat ground. At the end of the 19th century, it was already known as the Alarbs’ Cave. In 1879, Antoni Balmanya i Ros gave it the name “Cabana Arqueta”, becoming one of the first known dolmens in Catalonia, first excavated in 1920. In 1970 Joan Ruiz Solanes excavated and reinforced it and in 1982, Josep Castells i Roser Vilardell came back to carry out another archaeological intervention. Finally, the Empordà Group for the Safeguarding and Study of Rural and Traditional Architecture (GESEART in its Catalan initials) carried out its restoration in 1994. The chamber of the dolmen is trapezoidal, with five supports and a cover. Access to the room is gained through a passage made from a mixture of slabs and dry-stone walls. The mound was circular, made from a back fill of loose stones and earth.