Dolmen d'Amenon
The Dolmen d'Amenon (also called Allée couverte d'Amenon ) is located at the entrance to a farm, north of the D141 road and south of the Loir River , northwest of Saint-Germain-d'Arcé , near La Flèche in the Sarthe department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
These are the remains of an allée couverte , a gallery grave , of the angevin type . Like many dolmens, the Dolmen d'Amenon was destroyed during road construction in the past. The remains consist of a single capstone on two supporting stones about 1.5 meters apart, surrounded by many randomly distributed stones. It was excavated in the 1970s and has been protected as a Monument historique since 1976 .
literature
- Jean-Paul Henri Berthet: À la découverte des mégalithes en Sarthe. Berger, Le Mans 1992.
Remarks
- ↑ The Dolmen angevin is an allée couverte of the Loire type with a (retracted) trilith portal as an entrance
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Coordinates: 47 ° 38 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 0 ° 15 ′ 12.5 ″ E