Axeitos´ Dolmen
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| This funeral monument is more than 4000 years old |
Megalithic age funeral monument, placed at Axeitos place (Oleiros). It consists of eight gravestones forming a polygonal ground. The chamber measures 2.30 m. from the entrance to the bottom and 3 m. side to side. Its height reaches 2 m. and the covering stone is 4,50 by 3,50 m.
This tomb is 4.000 years old, and it is supposed to be a community tomb. In it were buried people from settlements raised in these lands in those times. The most accepted hypothesis about the system used to lift the stones – specially the upper one – reminds the one used by Egyptians and Romans. They piled up land until they got a ramp; then they moved over logs that rolled easily to set it on the right place.
To reach this site take road C-550 to Noia, the diversion is clearly noticed off Oleiros. Some signs leads the visitor to this ark place.
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| Axeitos´ Dolmen is one of the best conserved megalithic remains in Galicia. |
This sepulchre is also known as Pedra do Mouro (Moor Stone). And just as an anecdote, the famous writer Ramon Mª del Valle-Inclán had a funny habit; seemingly, he liked going to the tomb, climbing up to the top, and standing on the big horizontal stone, he jabbered as an old shaman haranguing the ancestors.
All over the Barbanza area, and therefore, in Riveira, signs and remains from our ancestors can be found. Besides Axeitos Dolmen, there are more megalithic culture vestiges : Coroso Dolmen (some misplaced semi-buried stones, but still showing man hand); Corrubedo tumuls (burial mounds blended with vegetated dunes at the northwestern area of the Natural Park); and a menhir (big oval man made stone) 2.5 m. high and 40 cm. diameter, recently discovered by an individual who has displayed it in his property at O Agra place, 50 m. away from the parish church of St. Maria Olveira. This stone, believed to also locate the situation of other tombs, was found in a kind of garden that this Olveira neighbour owns opposite his property. Seemingly, there are still another similar buried menhir over there.
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