Dolmen La Pierre Levée (Ardillières)

The Dolmen dit La Pierre Levée, view from the southeast

The dolmen La Pierre Levée (German: The raised rock ) is a dolmen on a hill about 500 m southeast of the village of Ardillières in the Charente-Maritime department in France . It is located around 300 m south of the D 111 road to Villeneuve, at the southeast end of a field , around 30 m east of the Boussay dirt road that branches off from the D 111 to the southeast. When the field is harvested, the dolmen can be seen from afar.

Three large, vertical bearing stones support the cover plate, which is almost 2 m high. The burial chamber below is about 2 m long and 1.5 m wide. A 60 cm high Báculo- like structure is engraved on the inside of the western bearing stone . There is nothing left of the tumulus that originally protected the building .

The dolmen has been registered and protected as a monument historique since 1889 .