Dolmen de la Brainée
The Dolmen de la Brainée is located in Mons in the far east of the Var department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The chamber is 2.5 m long and 1.7 m wide. It is bordered on the side by two cut-off orthostats and on the back by a large head plate (height 2.5 m, width 1.8 m). It opens to the west on a corridor about 3.0 m long. Access is spatially limited by four orthostats arranged at right angles to one another.
The large limestone dolmen for the region was examined in 1888 by Marcellin Chiris (1857-1932), in 1910 by Mizaël Edouard Edmond de Pas (1866-1941) and in 1972 by Gérard Sauzade and restored in 1990 by Hélène Barge.
The additions and finds consist of 22 steatite pearls, two ceramic shards decorated with stamps, two arrowheads , one large pearl made of green stone and one made of ceramic.
The dolmen is dated to the time of the bell-cup culture .
- Dolmen de la Brainée
The dolmen is just under a kilometer northeast of the Dolmen de la Colle and nearby are the dolmens of Peygros and Riens .
See also
literature
- Odile Roudil, Gérard Bérard: Les Sépultures mégalithiques du Var , Éditions du CNRS, 1981, ISBN 978-2-222-02921-2 , p. 157
- Hélène Barge, Eric Mahieu: Les Mégalithes du Var - 27 itinéraires de découverte , Actilia Multimédia, 2005, ISBN 2-915097-02-X
Web links
- Description (French)
Coordinates: 43 ° 43 ′ 16 ″ N , 6 ° 45 ′ 24 ″ E