Dolmen des Puades
The Dolmen des Puades is located north of Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne in the Alpes-Maritimes department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The Dolmen des Puades is located in a cairn about eleven meters in diameter. It has a chamber ( French cella ) of around 2.0 × 1.5 m, with a base plate weighing more than 2.0 tons. The side is made of dry masonry . At the entrance to the west are two pillars that separate the chamber from the corridor. A cover plate about 0.5 m thick and weighing about 3 tons covered the chamber, but was relocated indefinitely.
The dolmen was discovered and excavated in 1866 by Jean Baptiste Bourguignat . He served between 2500 and 900 BC. Three people as a burial place. Bourguignat found broken pottery, bronze rings, an iron arrowhead, and burned bones and charcoal.
There are other dolmens in the village, including the megalithic complexes of Prignon and the megalithic complexes of Mauvans sud . There is a stone box about 65 m away .
See also
literature
- Jean Clottes: Inventaire des mégalithes de la France, 5-Lot , Supplément à Gallia préhistoire, Éditions du CNRS, 1977, p. 552. ISBN 978-2222019459
- Gérard Sauzade: Les deux tombes du Prignon et les dolmens de Saint Cézaire (Alpes-Maritimes) , BAP, N ° 4, 1979
Web links
- Dolmen des Puades in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description (French)
- Description and picture
Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ 41.1 ″ N , 6 ° 48 ′ 6.5 ″ E