The Lapa de Gargantáns is a

menhir A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. They can be found ...

located in the Galician municipality of

Moraña Moraña is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the '' Comarca'' (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of t ...

, dated between 3,000–2,000 BC and discovered in 1958.{{Cite web, title=Menhir de Gargantáns, url=https://turismoriasbaixas.com/en/recursopan1?content=280377357, url-status=live, website=Turismo Rias Baixas

Description

It is 1.92 meters high and 50 centimeters in diameter, its base is cut, so probably the original height was greater. Several petroglyphs are engraved on its surface. In Galician, the word ''lapa'', among other meanings, designates a stone that marks a burial. However, its exact function is unknown, and some archaeologists associate it with funerary, religious or commemorative signs, or ancient territorial boundaries between tribes.

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3D model of the menhir
Megalithic monuments in Spain Archaeological sites in Galicia (Spain)