Cova de Geguins

The discovery of the cova de Geguins and the nearby Abrics, which together are known as the coves de Geguins, is the result of various visits made by different excursion groups over the decade of the seventies of the last century; it is curious that they were carried out independently of one another, but all of them involved the collection of ceramic fragments, which caused significant disturbance of the materials and their partial dispersal. One of the first excursionists was Josep Enric Gómez, who on one of his outings found the cavity and collected a large fragment, which he later gave to the then Archaeology Section of the Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs (IEI). With the data provided by him, an outing was carried out on 11 April 1977 that led to the provisional naming of the cavity as “Cova de la Cabra” due to finding inside it a goat skull probably not very old.