Dolmen du Champ-du-Ruisseau
The Dolmen du Champ-du-Ruisseau (also called Allée couverte du Champ-du-Ruisseau, Allée couverte de Pontpiau or La Bretonnière) is located near the Auxence (river), north of Champtocé-sur-Loire in the far west of the Maine department. et-Loire in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
It was not until 1949 that J.-B. Glotin discovered a short gallery tomb with a roofed antechamber and three preserved (of four) large ceiling panels, which was long covered by a hill. 14 of the 17 slabs of the megalithic complex, which form a bulged chamber, are made of sandstone . Three plates (the largest weighing over two tons) are made of pudding stone . In 1951 it was recognized that the last ceiling panel had traces of Wetzrillen ( French polissoir ) on the outside .
The dolmen has been classified as a monument historique since 1961 .
- Dolmen du Champ-du-Ruisseau
Distribution of dolmens in Maine-et-Loire - preserved structures are green
Front with portal
Grooves
Nearby are the sunken Dolmen de la Romme and the submerged Dolmen de la Boire de Champtocé .
See also
literature
- Jean-Paul Demoule: La révolution neolithique en France. 2007
- M. Gruet, J.-B. Glotin, J. Siraudeau, M.-C. Siraudeau, B. Passini: L'allée couverte de Pontpiau en Champtocé (Maine-et-Loire) (près Villemoisan) In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 1972 pp. 585-598
Web links
- Dolmen du Champ-du-Ruisseau in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '33.3 " N , 0 ° 54' 10.6" W.