Dolmen d'Hys
The Dolmen d'Hys (also known as Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (Liège)) is located about 1.7 km southwest of Le Liège and 900 meters northeast of Hys, in the Touraine in the Indre-et-Loire department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
There are the remains of an outer stone circle and a hill. The polygonal chamber consists of three supporting stones, two preserved side stones from 1.0 to 1.6 m high and a clearly rounded capstone about 5.0 m in diameter. The spaces between the plates were closed by small stones and clay. The bearing stones are made of shell limestone and the ceiling slab is made of conglomerate . The dolmen excavated in 1920 by Louis Dubreuil-Chambardel (1876–1927) contained bronzes that were found along with flint tools and bones.
Nearby is the Mallée dolmen .
literature
- Gérard Cordier: Inventaire des Mégalithes de la France. I. - Indre-et-Loire In: Sigfried J. de Laet: L'Antiquité Classique Année 1964 pp. 298-300
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Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '21.3 " N , 1 ° 5' 1.6" E