Cova del Alarb (Argelès-sur-Mer)

The dolmen Cova del Alarb (also called Caverne de l'Arabe or Cava de l'Alarb - German "Grotto des Arabs" ) is on the way to the 793 m high Tour de la Massane south of Argelès-sur-Mer in the Pyrénées department. Orientales and is one of the southernmost megalithic sites in France . It was recognized as a Monument historique in 1958 . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

Cova de l'Alarb

description

The Cova de l'Alarb is a simple dolmen ( French dolmen simple ), built similar to the nearby, more disturbed dolmen of the Collets de Cotlliure . Its small limestone chamber made of three bearing stones and a capstone is trapezoidal, which indicates a technique from the early megalithic phase between the end of the 5th and the first half of the 4th millennium BC. Chr. Indicates. The stones are heavy and massive but susceptible to weathering. There appears to have been a tumulus , but it is not easy to find traces of it.