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Balma del Gai

Balma del Gai

Balma of great archaeological interest in Moià, with a shelter 6 m high and 58 square m.

Moià • Moianès 6m

Balma of great archaeological interest in Moià, with a shelter 6 m high and 58 square m.

Caratteristiche

Località

Going from Moià towards Collsuspina along the N-131C road, at km 30.5, you come to the pont de la Torre, which crosses the torrent del Gai. Here, on the right, a dirt track starts that leads to some cultivated fields adjacent to the right bank of the torrent.

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Ingressi

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  1. Balma del Gai

    Quota: 756 m

    41.815557, 2.138131
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 428416 4629657
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Descrizione

Morfologia

Shelter 6 m high with a surface area of 5.5 x 10.5 m, giving a total of 58 square m.

Progressione

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.

Storia

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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Bibliografia

  1. 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
  1. 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”.

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