Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (Saint-Fort-sur-le-Né)

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Dolmen de la Pierre Levée
Dolmen de la Pierre Levée

The Dolmen de la Pierre Levée (German: Dolmen of the raised rock ) is a Neolithic megalithic complex in the commune of Saint-Fort-sur-le-Né in the Charente department in France . He is around 3500 BC. Dated a few hundred meters southeast of the village on a slight ridge in the middle of the vineyards.

Under the name Pierre Levée or Perre Levée there are probably around two dozen dolmens in France - e.g. B. in Brantôme , Bretignolles-sur-Mer , Échauffour , Janville-sur-Juine , La Chapelle-Vendômoise , La Roche-l'Abeille , Liniez , Moutiers-sous-Argenton , Poitiers and Yzeures-sur-Creuse .

The dolmen at Saint-Fort has an unusual height for the region, as the 7.20 m long, 4.70 m wide and up to 1.00 m thick cover plate at a clear height of about 2.20 m from three orthostats is supported by sandstone . The remaining originally six or seven bearing stones of the chamber were chopped off. The dolmen is a so-called " dolmen simple " or table dolmen. With a thickness of about one meter, its cover plate weighs about 40 tons. It is largely uncut, but the bearing stones are smoothed and cut into a rectangular shape so that they could be placed next to each other almost without any gaps. The remaining gaps between and above the orthostats were filled with intermediate masonry. The entire structure was probably originally covered by a burial mound made of earth, which has however completely disappeared. The dolmen was looted in the 19th century.

The dolmen has been on the list of historical monuments since 1983 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dolmen is the generic term in France for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
  2. ^ Dolmen dit la Pierre Levée de Soubise
  3. ↑ Dolmen dit "la pierre levée"
  4. ↑ Le Dolmen de la Pierre Levée
  5. ^ Dolmen de la Pierre Levée du Grand Gât: Moutiers-sous-Argenton
  6. ^ "La Pierre Levée" (Yzeures sur Creuse)
  7. ↑ Saint-Fort-su-le-Né, Dolmen de la Pierre Levée in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

literature

  • Volker Pingel : Megalithic groups and their archaeological differentiation. A look back . In: Karl W. Beinhauer et al. (Hrsg.): Studies on megalithics. (State of research and ethnoarchaeological perspectives) = The megalithic phenomenon . Beier and Beran, Weissbach 1999, ISBN 3-930036-36-3 , ( Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 21), pp. 37–50.

Web links

Commons : Dolmen de Saint-Fort-sur-le-Né  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Images (last accessed on December 11, 2012)

Coordinates: 45 ° 34 '20.8 "  N , 0 ° 17' 39.3"  W.