Dolmen de la Frébouchère
The Dolmen de la Frébouchère (also known as Dolmen Pierre Couverte de la Frébouchère) is a megalithic complex of the Angevin dolmen type , in the north of the village of Le Bernard between La Roche-sur-Yon and La Rochelle in the Vendée in France . It probably dates from the late Neolithic or the early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BC) and is one of the largest in the region. In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen, which was used as a sheepfold for a long time, consists of a damaged trilith access and a large rectangular chamber 3.5 m wide, over seven meters long and two meters high, which is covered with a broken plate weighing more than 80 tons. Three bearing stones on one side and one bearing stone on the other as well as two end stones support the capstone. A pointed menhir in the chamber that does not support the capstone has religious significance. The monument was completely emptied in the past.
Originally the facility was surrounded by a mound of earth. Three stones have been preserved from the curbs of the hillside that originally surrounded the dolmen.
The three dolmen de Savatole , the Tumulus du Pey von Fontaine and two menhirs are nearby.
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X
- PR Chaigneau: Les dolmens vendeens - Sociéte d'emulation de la Vendee , 1966-7, pp. 17-31.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Dolmen angevin, is an allée couverte of the Loire type, with a (retracted) trilith portal as access
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Coordinates: 46 ° 26 '53.9 " N , 1 ° 28' 8.4" W.