Balma d'en Xec

Rock shelter 22 metres wide, 10 metres deep and with a ceiling some 2 metres high, formed within marly strata overlain by another stratum of conglomerates about 5 metres thick that constitutes the flat, firm and safe roof of the rock shelter. It is possible that its depth has been increased by picking away or removing the blocks of the back wall over the years.

The rock shelter lies just below a torrent and in the rainy season the water falls in a cascade just above its western end, leaving a good representation of travertine concretion.

Although there is a certain degree of humidity, there are practically no drips from the ceiling, at most a few very localised and unimportant ones, except for one point beneath which a small pillar and a channel have been built in masonry, collecting and conducting the water to an irrigation pool. This whole ensemble is entirely covered with microgours containing oolites and small pisoliths.

The rock shelter lies just below a torrent and in the rainy season the water falls in a cascade just above its western end. Although there is a certain degree of humidity, there are practically no drips from the ceiling, at most a few very localised and unimportant ones, except for one point beneath which a small pillar and a channel have been built in masonry, collecting and conducting the water to an irrigation pool.

Inside the rock shelter there are two millstones. No one has been able to explain their presence.

At present the western end has been used by farmers as a hut, raising dry-stone walls to delimit a large room serving as a refuge and for storing farming tools and other materials.