Dolmen de la Croix de l'Yeuse

Dolmen de la Croix de l'Yeuse

The Dolmen de la Croix de l'Yeuse is located east of the hamlet of Arboras, near the D 122 road in Montpeyroux near Lodève in the Hérault department in France . It is an aisle dolmen with a q or p-shaped floor plan (French dolmen à couloir - avec plan en q ). In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

The dolmen lies in the restored remains of a round cairn set in curbs about 10 meters in diameter. There are two plates in the left (straight) part of the chamber and a remnant of the plate from the head.

A fragment of a bell cup was recovered from the dolmen in the 19th century .

There are five severely disturbed dolmens and a menhir near the cross .

See also

• Dolmen and menhirs of the Midi

• Croix de l'Yeuse
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literature

• Bruno Marc: Dolmens et menhirs en Languedoc et Roussillon 27 Circuits de Découverte Préhistorique . Presses du Languedoc, Montpellier 1999, ISBN 2-85998-190-X .

Web links

Commons : Mégalithes de la Croix de l'Yeuse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description and pictures (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacques Audibert: Quelques vases caliciformes de la France méridionale , In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française , vol. 55 (1958), no. 1-2, p. 90. doi : 10.3406 / ex. 1958.3637

Coordinates: 43 ° 42 ′ 43.4 "  N , 3 ° 29 ′ 37"  E