Dolmen de la Baraque de l'Estrade
The Dolmen de la Baraque de l'Estrade , restored in 1978, is a slightly bent megalithic complex ( French dolmen à coudé ) near Montmirat on the Causse de Sauveterre plateau in the Lozère department in southern France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The west-east oriented megalithic complex lies deep in an oval hill about 13.0 m in diameter and 1.5 m high. The approximately five-meter-long and 1.55-meter-wide chamber consists of two pairs of bearing stones of different sizes, arranged at an obtuse angle to each other, and an end plate in the west. The east side, probably the access side, consists of a made sèche Pierre started apse . The chamber is sunk about three feet into the hill. Two of the once presumably four cap stones lie on top and are 15 cm thick.
The approximately 2500 BC The facility was built until the Bronze Age . There is also evidence of subsequent burials in the hill.
50 m to the east there is a " Menhir indicateur".
See also
literature
- Marcel Baudouin: Les allées couvertes coudées . In: Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française Vol. 14 (1917), pp. 391-405 ( full text ).
Web links
- Description, pictures and floor plan (French)
Coordinates: 44 ° 24 ′ 47.7 " N , 3 ° 30 ′ 44.8" E