Dolmen de la Coste
The Dolmen de la Coste (also Lacoste) is located in an oak grove north of the lagoon town of Frontignan in the Hérault department in France and is one of the closest dolmen in the Midi . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
description
The dolmen is a "dolmen à couloir" of the languedocien type with a long and wide, winding corridor made of large, multilayered stone blocks, which leads in the middle into an almost square chamber. It consists of eight large panels (2 per side). The panels on the access side leave an approximately 70 cm wide access open. All capstones are missing, but the mound has been preserved up to the top of the gangway masonry.
In the chamber an arrowhead, three blades, a scraper, seven pendants and pearls made of bacon and limestone , the fragment of a hazelnut and the petrified tooth of a sea bream were discovered.
The stone circle of Pioch de Roumanis is about 2.0 km to the west .
See also
literature
- Jean-Paul Demoule : La révolution néolithique en France , 2007, ISBN 978-2-7071-5138-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Dolmen of Coste-Rouge and Dolmen of Coste-Caude are megalithic structures with a similar name in the Herault, east of Soumont and La Vacquerie-et-Saint-Martin-de-Castries
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Coordinates: 43 ° 27 ′ 28.6 " N , 3 ° 44 ′ 28.5" E