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Balma de la Graiera

Balma de la Graiera

Small shelter of archaeological interest in Calafell (Baix Penedès), 8m wide and about 7m high on a semicircular plan.

Calafell • Baix Penedès 3m 3m

Small shelter of archaeological interest in Calafell (Baix Penedès), 8m wide and about 7m high on a semicircular plan.

Caratteristiche

Località

Shortly before Km. 2 of the TV-2126 road that links the urban centres of Bellveí and Calafell, we will turn off onto the old stretch of road that leaves to the left. At this point we will leave the vehicle and continue on foot along the path to the left of the road; this main path, initially uphill, heads towards the East and in a stretch of 150m we will reach the Balma de la Graiera.

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  1. Balma de la Graiera

    Quota: 77 m

    41.221529, 1.575909
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 380632 4564327
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Descrizione

Morfologia

The shelter has dimensions of 8m wide and about 7m high on a semicircular plan, where the maximum route under cover is about 3m and others more in the open air that link with a flat platform in front of the shelter.

At present, various archaeological interventions have changed the physiognomy of the ground, both of the shelter and of the platform in front of it.

Storia

The first news of this shelter was provided by Father Martí Grivé, a teacher at the Col·legi Sant Ramon de Penyafort in Vilafranca del Penedès and an enthusiast of prehistoric archaeology, who received from one of his students, Hans Hellmuth, son of one of the engineers of a quarry that was being worked near the shelter, some archaeological materials that led the teacher, in August 1932, to visit the protohistoric site.

The latest interventions have been carried out by members of the SERP (1989-2000).

It is not, however, until August 2020 that Jordi Navarro and Montse Mañosa (Centre Excursionista Castellar) locate it and carry out the documentation work to include it in the Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (2023).

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Bibliografia

  1. Virella i Bloda, Joan (1978).-”Experiències a l'entorn de la localització d'Estacions Prehistòriques”. Miscel.lania Penedesenca (1):241-269.
  2. Cebrià, Artur; Esteva, Xavier Esteva i Vilardell, Adriana (2000).-Cavalls, cérvols i conills. 10 anys de recerca a la balma de la Graiera de Calafell. El congost de la Cobertera a la prehistòria. 27 pp. Edició dels autors.
  3. Valles, Jordi de (2023).-”Alt Penedès, Baix Penedès, Garraf, Tarragonès”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (Vol.7): 508 pp. Espeleo Club Muntanyenc Barcelonès / Federació Catalana d'Espeleologia. Barcelona.
  • Original fitxa i fotografies facilitades per Jordi Navarro i Montse Mañosa (Centre Excursionista de Castellar del Vallès).


Fonte: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modificato. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/