Dolmen de la Pichone
The Dolmen de la Pichone (also called La Pitchoune ), discovered in 1909 by the amateur archaeologist André Moireuc, is located on the D3 (road) just after the junction of the "Chemin des Renards" (road), east of Ménerbes , in the Vaucluse department in France .
The dolmen is below next to the road and a bridge arch. It is built into a terraced slope. It is unclear whether this was the original position or whether the slope was raised when the road was built.
The 2.87 x 1.9 m chamber is 1.76 m high. It has an end stone, a cap stone and the chipped remains of two portal stones at the front, the two sides, on the other hand, are made of dry masonry and protrude slightly.
The dolmen was sometimes used as a storage place.
With the Dolmen de l'Ubac in Goult and the Dolmen Autel du Loup in Sault , it is one of only three dolmens in the Vaucluse and one of the few in Provence .
literature
- Gérard Sauzade: Les sépultures du vaucluse du neolithique à l'age de bronze In: Etudes quaternaires - mémoire n "6, 1983
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Coordinates: 43 ° 49 ′ 36.4 " N , 5 ° 13 ′ 44.5" E