Marie-Gaillard dolmen
The Dolmen of Marie-Gaillard (also les Teyssounières called) is in the north of the forest "Bois-del-Rey" in Martiel in the far west of the Aveyron in the region Occitania in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The round burial mound is about 15 m in diameter. The chamber, which is open at the front, is about 2.2 m long and 1.4 m wide. The two 0.22 to 0.3 m thick bearing stones are 2.9 × 1.0 m and 2.1 × 1.2 m in size. The end stone, which is only 0.1 m thick, measures 1.0 × 0.8 m. The 0.5 m thick capstone measures around 3.0 × 2.3 m.
Drywall at the bottom of the chamber, which resembles a hearth, is likely the result of a more recent use of the chamber as a shelter. According to Émile Cartailhac , the dolmen was excavated in 1885 by Thomas Wilson, US consul in Nice , but the description Wilson sent in a letter to Cartailhac in 1885 does not correspond to the dolmen of Marie-Gaillard.
Objects from the excavation are preserved at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC .
Nearby are the Dolmen du Bois del Rey and Dolmen du Bois de Galtier . The dolmens in the Aveyron often occur in groups and 92% of all dolmens are made of limestone slabs .
See also
literature
- M. Marquie: Les ossements humains du dolmen de Marie-Gaillard (Aveyron). In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, VIII ° Série. Tome 9 fascicule 4-6, 1938. pp. 73-96
Web links
- Dolmen dit de Maire-Gaillard in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 44 ° 24 ′ 36 ″ N , 1 ° 52 ′ 39 ″ E