Allée couverte des Bonnes Dames
The Allée couverte des Bonnes Dames is a gallery tomb near Les Sories , about two kilometers southwest of Saint-Thomas-de-Courceriers in the east of the Mayenne department in France . The facility has been under protection since 1988.
The west-east oriented megalithic complex of around 30 boulders of different sizes lies on the edge of a thicket, but is visible from the street. The gallery is approximately 7 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. It has been largely destroyed, not only because a tree is growing in the complex, with an area with a capstone still standing about 1.0 m high.
The name Bonnes Dames ( German "Good Ladies" ) comes from the good fairies that were previously called that.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
- Pierre-Roland Giot: Prehistory of Brittany. Menhirs and dolmens. Édition d'Art Jos Le Doaré, Châteaulin 1996, ISBN 2-85543-103-4 .
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Béatrice Bottet, Christine Adam: Fées et autres bonnes dames 2006
Web links
- Entry no.PA00109613 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 36.1 ″ N , 0 ° 16 ′ 25.6 ″ W.