Dolmen des Trois Pierres (Trie-Château)
The Dolmen des Trois Pierres ( German " Dolmen of the three stones" - also called Dolmen de la Pierre Percée or Dolmen de la Pierre Trouée) is a megalithic complex of the Seine-Oise-Marne culture (SOM) from the Neolithic in the Bois de la Garenne (Forest) in Trie-Château in Picardy in the Oise department in France. There are other dolmens with this name: at Saint-Nazaire and the (Bret .: "En Tri Men" or "de Tri-Men-de-Castello" called) between the hamlets of Rohabon and Castello in the Morbihan department . The dolmen is a monument historique .
The Trois Pierres von Trie-Château is not a dolmen, but the remnant of an allée couverte made of limestone , of which only a short corridor and chamber area, consisting of two supporting stones and a ceiling plate as well as the entrance stone with a shattered soul hole ( French dalle-hublot ) 30 cm in diameter.
The excavations carried out by ME Riviere, MM Fitan and Léon de Vesly (1844–1920) in 1876 revealed a number of human bones.
literature
- Frédéric Lontcho: Dolmens et menhirs de France, Lacapelle-Marival, Editions Archéologie Nouvelle, coll. “Archéologie Vivante”, 2014, ISBN 979-10-91458-09-2 , p. 130.
Web links
- Description and pictures
- Dolmen des Trois Pierres in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description (French) and picture
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '19.9 " N , 1 ° 50' 6.4" E