![]() Like most Iberian tombs, it is oriented slightly south of east (96°), situated precisely so that at the summer solstices the sunlight at daybreak illuminates the burial chamber. The dolmen is covered by a mound or tumulus 50 metres (160 ft) in diameter. The stones range from 20 centimetres (7.9 in) to 50 centimetres (20 in) in thickness. The corridor is a bit over 21 metres (69 ft) long. The burial chamber has different dimensions than the corridor: a little over 200 centimetres (79 in) high and 180 centimetres (71 in) wide, while the corridor is 185 centimetres (73 in) high and ranges from 130 centimetres (51 in) wide at the entrance to 160 centimetres (63 in) where it meets up with the chamber. This is presumed to be a burial chamber, although only silica and bone tools and ceramics were discovered there. It consists of a long corridor formed by twenty-seven stones, leading to a rectangular chamber. Like the Dolmen de Menga, it is built with an orthostatic technique: large stones standing upright. It was discovered between 19 by brothers Antonio and José Viera from Antequera, who also discovered El Romeral. It is located only 70 metres (230 ft) from the Dolmen de Menga and about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) of another structure known as Tholos de El Romeral. The Dolmen de Viera or Dolmen de los Hermanos Viera is a dolmen-a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb-located in Antequera, province of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain.
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