 General view of the structure | |
| Location | Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France |
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| Type | Dolmen |
The dolmen of Coma Enestapera, or Coma Estapera, is located in Cerbère, in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales in the Occitanie region.
Situated on a rise in the Pyrenees massif overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, this small-scale dolmen is made of slate schist, a stone that crumbles easily. Reused and converted into shelters over the centuries, its condition makes it difficult to study. There is some debate as to whether its entrance was to the south, like most dolmens in the region, or to the north, as it is today. Excavations have yielded few results.
The dolmen is dated to the 4th or 3rd millennium BC. Although listed as a historic monument as early as 1889, it was subsequently forgotten by researchers, only to be rediscovered in 1950 and excavated in 1963. In Catalan, coma means combe and esta pera means "this stone". It was the dolmen that gave its name to the locality of Coma Estapera.