Aire des trois Seigneurs
The megalithic complex Aire des trois Seigneurs (full name Ensemble mégalithique de l'Aire des Trois-Seigneurs - German "Platz der Drei Herren" ) is a right-angled dolmen ( French dolmen à coudé ) on the plateau of Causse de Sauveterre , on the border between the communes of Laval-du-Tarn and Gorges du Tarn Causses in the Lozère department in southern France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The facility, which is oriented east-west and made of thin slabs, is one of the largest in Lozère. The chamber is 3.8 m long, 1.5 m at the front and 0.8 m wide at the end and 1.5 m deep into the rock. The access part, which bends to the north, forms a 4.1 m long, 1.35 m wide antechamber, the greater part of which has walls made of dry stone . All capstones have run out.
The approximately 2000 BC The complex was built in the Bronze Age and lies in the remainder of a pile of stones about 21.0 m in diameter. No finds were made. There is evidence of reuse in the Iron Age .
Nearby are two destroyed stone circles and the Dolmen de la Cham .
See also
literature
- Marcel Baudouin: Les allées couvertes coudées , in: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France , Volume 14 (1917), No. 8, pp. 391-405. [1]
Web links
- Ensemble mégalithique de l'Aire des Trois-Seigneurs in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description, pictures and floor plan (French)
- Description Engl. and pictures
Coordinates: 44 ° 24 '43.56 " N , 3 ° 23' 30.76" O