Dolmen de la Cour-du-Breuil
The Dolmen de la Cour-du-Breuil (also called Pierre levée ) is located southeast of Le Bernard in the Vendée department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The Dolmen de la Cour-du-Breuil consists of a ceiling slab of about 3.8 × 2.9 m, lying horizontally on three supporting stones at a height of about 1.5 m, next to the two more upright and three lying or re-erected Stones are present.
The dolmen of Savatole and the Tumulus du Pey of Fontaine are nearby.
literature
- Georges Lacouloumère, Marcel Baudouin: Les Mégalithes de Savatole, au Bernard (Vendée) In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France Volume 4 (1907), pp. 371-387 ( full text ).
- Marcel Baudoin: Les cupules de la table du dolmen de la Court du Breuil, au Bernard (Vendée) In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris. Volume 7 (1916), No. 1, pp. 2-16.
- PR Chaigneau: Les dolmens vendeens - Sociéte d'emulation de la Vendee , 1966/7, pp. 17-31.
Web links
Commons : Pierre-Levée de la Cour-du-Breuil - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Dolmen dit de la Cour du Breuil in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and pictures (French)
- Description and pictures (English)
Coordinates: 46 ° 25 '58.6 " N , 1 ° 27' 11.7" W.