The discovery was released this Wednesday afternoon by Aranzadi. When crómlech or crómlech of Jaizkibel V began to excavate by chance, unusual remains unexpectedly appeared under his soil and have realized that the structure is more complex than was thought.
On the one hand, the rocky slabs that form the circumference of the stone orchard, now fallen, stood in the prehistory and represented a enclosure: a perfect circle. One of the peculiarities of the site has been found in this enclosure: two children's slabs are much larger than the others, two meters high, and they are one in front of the other, looking towards the northeast and the southwest.
The excavations are not yet finished, but they hope to find a camera to bury the ashes of the dead in the center of the crómlech. To this end, they have the collaboration of the City of Hondarribia and the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa.
The crómlech, also called in some mairubaratza places, were erected by humans between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago, during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and on both sides of the Pyrenees have counted more than 1,500 megalites of this kind, from Benasque to the Leitzaran Valley: "The purpose of these cromlechs, besides being used as burial grounds, was to mark the territory," explained the head of the excavations in Jaizkibel, Manu Ceberio.
Several researchers have concluded that these are archaeological remains of an ancient culture possessed by pastors and groups of non-nomadic farmers linked to the habitat.