Allée couverte by Pitray
The Allée couverte von Pitray is located on the grounds of the Pitray Castle, on the edge of a hill, 750 m west of the village of Gardegan-et-Tourtirac in the Entre deux mers near Libourne in the Gironde department in France .
It is a more disturbed west-east oriented system of the "Allées girondines" or "Type aquitain" type. Its length is 9.25 meters, it consists of six up to 1.7 meters high and 4.1 m long supporting stones made of limestone , which are about 1.2 meters apart, a huge end stone and four low side stones. The gallery grave no longer has any cap stones. The end stone is about 2.3 meters wide. The side stones are graduated in height (probably due to damage). There are three large and two medium-sized stones on the north side and three large and three medium-sized stones on the south side. Some of the stones have holes that appear to be traces of weathering. Traces of an oval tumulus can be seen on the south side.
First examined by the Count von Pitray, who found human bones, including two well-preserved skulls. Examined by Abbé Labrie in 1906. The finds that have not been preserved were three fragments of tibia; Flint chips and Neolithic pottery shards. Not described, but presented similar to the Curton Dolmen .
Nearby are the Allée couverte of Roquefort and the dolmens of Bignon .
See also
literature
- Volker Pingel : Megalithic groups and their archaeological differentiation. A look back . In: Karl W. Beinhauer et al. (Hrsg.): Studies on megalithics. (State of research and ethnoarchaeological perspectives) = The megalithic phenomenon . Beier and Beran, Weissbach 1999, ISBN 3-930036-36-3 , ( Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 21), pp. 37–50.
- Alain Beyneix : Monuments mégalithiques en Aquitaine , Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, Éditions Alan Sutton, 2009, 96 p. ( ISBN 978-2-84910-957-1 ) p. 52.
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Coordinates: 44 ° 53 '55.3 " N , 0 ° 1' 48" W.