Cova de Mas de N'arques

Of elongated configuration, it exceeds 80 m in length by some 10 in width.

The ceiling of the cavity is quite blackened, which denotes a long-lasting occupation.

Inside the cave, close to the wall, there is a water seep.

Inside it shelters a construction that served as a dwelling with a partition wall in the middle that divides it into two parts. The floor has been conveniently levelled and smoothed so that this building could be erected.

A few years ago the doors were repaired, one on the E side and the other on the W, and the walls of the building, but in some notes taken in 2005 we confirmed that the sockets of a very old door could still be seen. The wall sections are about 50 cm wide, they are well preserved and it is noteworthy that some parts are built with better-worked stones than the rest and it presents a single window consisting of a loophole opening, which gives it a defensive character. We do not know whether it was opened in the course of some countess, at some moment when bandits lorded it over the roads or in some Carlist war. The fact of being right beside the path must have made this security measure necessary.

It was possibly inhabited until the beginning of the 20th century. Lately it has been used as a fold for livestock.