Dolmen Rocher de la Vache

The Dolmen Rocher de la Vache (also called Dolmen du Rocher de la Vache - dt. Rock of the Cow - or Dolmen de Saint-Brice 2) is located south of the D 157 road, a few meters from the Dolmen de Garde Epée , east of Saint Brice at Cognac in the Charente department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

It should not be confused with the Dolmen de la Roche-à-la-Vache south of La Normandais in the Loire-Atlantique department .

The strangely shaped dolmen is located on a small, wooded, natural stone hill. It seems that two capstones or a capstone broken in two are on top of each other and the bearing stones are scattered all around.

It has been protected as a Monument historique since 1934 .

literature

• Le Nord-Charente au Néolithique moyen et récent (3500–2900 av. J.-C.): enceintes fossoyées, sépultures mégalithiques et territoires. General Council of the Charente

Web links

• Dolmen Rocher de la Vache in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
• Description and pictures

Coordinates: 45 ° 41 ′ 20 ″  N , 0 ° 15 ′ 1 ″  W.