Dolmen des Collets de Cotlliure
The Dolmen des Collets de Cotlliure (in the Base Mérimée Dolmen dit Collets de Collioure , also called Cami de la Hassanne ) is located on the way to the 793 m high Tour de la Massane southwest of Argelès-sur-Mer in the Pyrénées-Orientales department and belongs to the southernmost megalithic complexes in France . It has been recognized as a Monument historique since 1958 . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
description
The dolmen des Collets de Cotlliure is a so-called simple dolmen ( French dolmen simple ), built similarly to the nearby dolmen Cova de l'Alarb . Its small chamber is trapezoidal, which indicates a technique from the early megalithic phase between the end of the 5th and the first half of the 4th millennium BC. Suggests. The capstone is missing, the supporting stones ( orthostats ) are heavy and massive. The burial mound has largely been preserved.
Surroundings
Further south are the five dolmens at Banyuls-sur-Mer and Cerbère, the Cova del Alarb and the church of Saint-Laurent-du-Mont .
See also
literature
- Jean Clottes: Dolmens et Menhirs du Midi. Edition Loubatiéres, Portet-sur-Garonne 1987, ISBN 2-86266-048-5 , ( Terres du Sud 26).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dolmen dit Collets de Collioure, Argelès-sur-Mer in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 42 ° 31 ′ 15 ″ N , 3 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E