Dolmen de la Pierre Martine
The Pierre Martine dolmen , classified as a monument historique since 1889 , is located in the Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park (French: Parc naturel régional des Causses du Quercy ), south of the D 802 road near Livernon in the Lot department in southern France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
With its large ceiling slab, which is 7.1 m long, an average 2.3 m wide, 0.55 m thick and weighs around 22 tons, it is the largest of the “Dolmens du Quercy”, which leads to the dolmens of the midi . The plate, furrowed by erosion, rests on two supporting stones that form the end stones of the chamber. The ceiling slab, which was broken in 1948, was supported by concrete pillars in 1966. The plate covers a large room and the chamber to the west. It is bounded laterally by panels 4.9 m and 4.25 m in length. The dolmen was covered by a burial mound measuring 30 by 15 m, of which almost nothing has survived.
200 m to the south lies a karst landscape , the surface of which is structured by deep carts . The French Lapiaz are a geological shape that is created on limestone and dolomite surfaces by rainwater.
About 500 m south of the dolmen is the quarry from which the stones of the dolmen as well as those of the 100 m distant dolmen of Rougié originate.
See also
literature
- Jean Clottes: Le dolmen de la Pierre Martine, Livernon (Lot) .
Web links
- Dolmen nommé La Pierre Martine in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and pictures (French; last accessed on December 11, 2012)
- Description and pictures (English)
Coordinates: 44 ° 39 ′ 38.8 " N , 1 ° 49 ′ 15" E