Dolmen de la Cham
The Dolmen de la Cham is a " dolmen á coudé", a right-angled megalithic complex , northwest of the hamlet of La Périgouse, which belongs to the municipality of Laval-du-Tarn, 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 east-west oriented system is built from five thin support plates. It is 2.8 m long, 1.2 m wide and about 1.0 m deep worked into the rock. The access part, which bends to the north, forms a 3.8 m long and 1.2 m wide antechamber, which has a staircase at the end. Two of the presumably three capstones have been preserved. One is 1.8 m long, 1.65 m wide and 0.25 m thick and covers the end of the chamber, the walls of which have been slightly raised by a layer of dry brickwork. The eastern plate is larger and shifted to the east.
The approximately 2000 BC The complex, which was built in the Bronze Age , lies in a pile of stones 12 m in diameter. Except for a paving of the chamber, no finds were made. However, there is evidence of a reuse in the Iron Age .
See also
literature
- Marcel Baudouin: Les allées couvertes coudées. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France , Vol. 14 (1917), No. 8, pp. 391-405.
Web links
- Description, pictures and floor plan (French)
Coordinates: 44 ° 24 ′ 49.8 " N , 3 ° 22 ′ 45.4" E