Dolmen Pierre-aux-Bignes
The Dolmen Pierre-aux-Bignes (or Pierre des Bignes) is located north of Habloville, near Falaise, in the Orne department in Normandy in France , where two burial mounds have been preserved. In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen of the Bignes is a Neolithic passage dolmen ( French dolmen à couloir - chamber and passage of lower height), which lies in a depression in the north-western part of the hill. The hill is about 15 meters in diameter and about two meters high.
The dolmen has a large capstone (about 4.0 × 3.0 meters) that rests on six about one meter high bearing stones. A few other stones are scattered around. The stones of the dolmen are made of granite and mica from the Putanges region, about eight kilometers away.
The Bignes dolmen was discovered in 1780.
literature
- Bernard Edeine: Le complexe mégalithique de la Pierre des Bignes commune d'Habloville (Orne). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. Études et travaux. Vol. 68, No. 1, 1971, pp. 567-565, doi : 10.3406 / ex . 1971.10347 .
- Jean-Paul Demoule (Ed.): La révolution néolithique en France. La Découverte, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7071-5138-4 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '22.9 " N , 0 ° 9' 52.5" W.