Chabola de la Hechicera

The Chabola de la Hechicera is a dolmen located in Elvillar, Álava, in the Basque Country (Spain). Three large vertical stones support a large flat horizontal stone. Nine large stones form the chamber in a polygonal shape. The corridor is made of stones and is divided into two halves. It was probably a funerary construction to house the remains of the people in this monument.

It was discovered in 1935 by Álvaro de Gortázar in a very good state of conservation. Jose Miguel Barandiaran partially explored it in 1936, finding a polished ophite axe, fragments of pottery and human remains. The stone at the top is divided into three parts, but it was restored and replaced in its original position. Between 2010 and 2014, the Department of Museums and Archaeology of the Provincial Council of Alava commissioned the University of the Basque Country professors Javier Fernández Eraso and José Antonio Mujika Alustiza to carry out excavations and studies there. The burial mound was reconstructed, maintaining the original technique by interlacing the stones so that they are held together without the need to add a band of large stones to hold them in place, and a ritual space was identified and marked at the entrance, before the corridor, consolidating the burial chamber.

The finds are kept in a museum in the nearby town of Laguardia.

Before the August festivities, a coven is held around the dolmen.

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