Dolmen de la Boire de Champtocé
The Dolmen de la Boire de Champtocé is located west of Champtocé-sur-Loire in the Maine-et-Loire department in France .
In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds ( see: French nomenclature ) The dolmen was discovered in 1976 thanks to the drought that significantly lowered the level of the Loire and its approximately 5.0 km long tributary Boire de Champtocé , in which the dolmen in a short distance from the right bank.
Despite the unfavorable circumstances, Michel Gruet was able to draw up a plan. The dolmen is about 5 feet long and 2 feet wide and resembles a short V-shaped dolmen. The chamber, which narrows slightly to the east towards the corridor, was delimited by seven orthostats , three in the north and south and a head plate in the west. They stand 0.5 to 1.0 m above the muddy ground and can be sunk by the same amount. The slabs are made of sandstone . Five more blocks were north and east of the dolmen. These can be remnants of a hill border.
Nearby are the Dolmen du Champ-du-Ruisseau and the Dolmen de la Romme .
See also
literature
- Jean-Paul Demoule: La révolution neolithique en France. 2007
- Michel Gruet, Guy Collin and Alain Braguier: Le dolmen immergé de la boire de Champtocé (Maine-et-Loire) . In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française , Volume 75 (1978), No. 1, pp. 24-28. ( online )
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '38.1 " N , 0 ° 52' 53.6" W.