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ROUGH STONE MONUMENTS 



or stone set in the centre of the chamber. On 

 the walls of some of the chambers there are traces 

 of rough painting in red. The whole tomb is 

 covered with a circular mound. In the best known 

 example at Los Millares there are remains of a 

 semicircular facade in front of the entrance, as 

 in many other megalithic monuments. 



The finest, however, of all the Spanish monu- 

 ments is the corridor-tomb of Antequera in Anda- 

 lusia. It consists of a short passage leading into 

 a long rectangular chamber roofed with four 

 slabs. Within it on its axial line are three stone 

 pillars placed directly under the three meeting- 

 points of the four slabs, but quite unnecessary 

 for their support. The whole tomb is covered 

 with a low mound of earth. In the great upright 

 slab which forms the inner end of the chamber is 

 a circular hole rather above the centre. 



It is not the plan of this tomb, but the size, that 

 compels the admiration of the beholder. He 

 stands, as it were, within a vast cave lighted only 

 from its narrow end, the, roof far above his head. 

 The rough surface of the blocks lends colour to 

 the feeling that this is the work of Nature and 

 not of man. Here, even if not in Stonehenge, he 

 will pause to marvel at the patient energy of the 

 men of old who put together such colossal masses 

 of stone. 



Among the corridor-tombs of Spain must be 

 mentioned a wedge-shaped type which bears a 



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