Cova d'en Mollet

In some texts, we are told that while Josep M. Corominas was excavating in the cova del Reclau Viver (Serinyà), Baldiri Costa, tenant of Can Mollet, a house near the site, indicated to him the presence of a possible new cave, which received the name cova de Mollet. In other texts the discovery is attributed to Josep Pau and Jaume Franch in 1943. When, in the 70s, new discoveries were made it was called Mollet I, in order to distinguish it from the other caves that received the same name. Thus we find that in the bibliography it is cited indistinctly as cova de Mollet or de Mollet I. The first works were carried out by Dr. Josep M. Corominas in 1947, and were continued by himself in 1948. He did not resume them until 1958, now co-directed with Eduard Ripoll and Lluís Pericot. In 1972 J.M. Corominas excavated again at Mollet I, as well as a narrow corridor or "racó", located at the end of the cave on the north side. After these works, he considered his intervention at the site finished. It was in the 1972 excavations that a human molar was found. This molar, conserved with the palaeontological remains, was identified while cleaning and classifying the fauna. Unfortunately in this case the depth reference that J.M. Corominas always placed on all materials was lost, and therefore we do not know the exact place where it was found. This molar has become the oldest human remain in Catalonia dated at about 215,000 years.