Dolmen of the Pierres Folles du Plessis

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Menhir du Plessis
Menhir du Plessis

The Dolmen des Pierres Folles du Plessis (also called Pierres folles de Fontenelles or Pierres Folles au Bernard ) is located at a picnic area south of the D 949 road, northeast of Le Bernard in the Communauté de communes Moutierrois Talmondais near Les Sables-d'Olonne in the department Vendée in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

The west-east facing chamber was probably about five meters long and two meters wide, but the eastern end has collapsed. The remains of a four by three meter capstone that still rests at the western end are in the chamber. The angevin dolmen has no preserved entrance.

The mass of jumbled stones at the east end has apparently been further broken recently due to fresh breaklines and drill marks, or a new stone has been dumped.

The menhirs

Two neighboring menhirs (the Menhirs du Plessis ) are located north of the Dolmen des Pierres Folles du Plessis and south of the Dolmen de l'Echafaud du Plessis . The "Menhirs du Plessis" were an equilateral triangle made up of large menhirs, each 100 meters apart. Two survive after the eastern one was destroyed in 1860. The northern stone is 7.5 meters long. He fell over and was raised again in 1977. The southern one is about 4.0 meters high and made of granite . The Dolmen de la Cour-du-Breuil (also called "Pierre levée") is located southeast of Le Bernard.

See also

literature

  • PR Chaigneau: Les dolmens vendeens - Sociéte d'emulation de la Vendee , 1966-7, pp. 17-31.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Dolmen angevin is an allée couverte of the Loire type, often with a (retracted) trilith portal as access.

Web links

Commons : Dolmen de la Pierre Folle du Plessis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Menhirs du Plessis (Le Bernard)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 27 '2.6 "  N , 1 ° 26" 25.4 "  W.