Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (La Chapelle-Vendômoise)
The Dolmen de la Pierre Levée is located in a field on the “Chemin du Dolmen” near the D 957 road, southeast of La Chapelle-Vendômoise , near Blois in the Loir-et-Cher department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The classic, almost closed dolmen, angevin. made of large limestone slabs marked the border between the counties of Vendôme and Blois until 1339 . The main chamber measures around 5.0 × 3.0 meters inside and is 1.3 meters high. It has two lateral bearing stones, a wide end stone and two wide cap stones. At the front end is the classic Angevin portal with two side stones and a divided entrance stone with a kind of soul hole .
The dolmen has been classified as a monument historique since 1889 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Dolmen angevin, is an allée couverte of the Loire type, with a (retracted) trilith portal as access
Web links
- Dolmen dit La Pierre Levée in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and pictures
Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '39.6 " N , 1 ° 15' 28.7" E