Balma del Gai
Balma of great archaeological interest in Moià, with a shelter 6 m high and 58 square m.
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Balma del Gai
Balma of great archaeological interest in Moià, with a shelter 6 m high and 58 square m.
Moià · Moianès
Length: 6 m
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Balma of great archaeological interest in Moià, with a shelter 6 m high and 58 square m.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
Shelter 6 m high with a surface area of 5.5 x 10.5 m, giving a total of 58 square m.
Progression
You need to find a small path that descends towards the torrent and follow it along the streambed for about a hundred metres in a N direction until you reach the balma.
History
The site was discovered in 1975 by Joan Surroca Arisa (1925-2013), who had been a well-known scholar of the region all his life.
In 1977 the first excavations were carried out and over the years material has been recovered from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age.
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Bibliography
- Mangado, Javier; Nadal, Jordi (2006).- “Caracterización y aprovisionamiento de materias primas en el yacimiento epipaleolítico de la Balma del Gai (Moià, Bages)”. Sociedad de Prehistoria, Recursos y Territorio: 179-197
- Valles, Jordi de (2011).- Catàleg espeleològic de Catalunya. Vol. 5: 560 pp. Espeleo Club de Gràcia / Federació Catalana d'Espeleologia. Barcelona (Publicat el 2016)
- Topografia extreta del blog: ostiaelfantasma.blogspot (de Ferran Vergés) Apunt del juliol 2012
- Fotografies de “moianès.net”.
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