Dolmen du Calvaire
The two Dolmen du Calvaire located on a hill above the river Chassezac (a tributary of the Ardèche ), the hamlet of Calvary near the town of Saint-Alban-Auriolles , west of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in the region Occitania in France . They belong to the "Dolmens de l'Ardèche", which with 800 dolmens form the second largest megalithic area behind Brittany . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
A way of the cross leads up to a chapel from the 16th century. About 60 meters in front of the chapel is the Dolmen No. 2 du Calvaire . The ceiling plate is missing and otherwise it is badly damaged. About 70 meters behind the chapel is the largely intact Dolmen du Calvaire No. 1 , a megalithic complex of the "Languedoc type". All three bearing stones made from local stone material are available. As with many dolmens, access is in the lower Vivarais in the southeast. The approximately 30 cm thick ceiling plate measures 4 × 4.2 m. Their weight is estimated at 11 tons. The two dolmens have been a listed building since 1889 and were built between 5000 and 4000 BC. Dated.
legend
According to a legend, the dolmen is called the “fairy hat”: a pretty young fairy with a large hat once lived here . She jumped from stone to stone until one day she realized that she was being followed by a beast. To save herself, she put her hat over the monster at the place where the dolmen is today.
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).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00116771 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Web links
- Brief description of Dolmen 1 (French) and pictures
- Brief description of Dolmen 2 and pictures ( memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Coordinates: 44 ° 25 ′ 44 ″ N , 4 ° 17 ′ 32 ″ E