Dolmen du Colombier
The Dolmen du Colombier (also called Dolmen de Grosse Pierre) is located south of the main town of Bidon near Pierrelatte in the Ardèche department in France . It is one of 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 Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen should not be confused with the Allée couverte du Colombier in Switzerland , the dolmen du Colombier of Saint-Jean-d'Aubrigoux in the Haute-Loire department , that of Aubigné-Racan in the Sarthe department or the tumulus of Colombiers-sur- Seulles in the Calvados department .
The dolmen remnant, consisting of two limestone slabs , lies in the remnants of a cairn with a height of about 1.0 meters and essentially consists of the two long lateral bearing stones.
- Dolmen du Colombier
Dolmen du Colombier
Dolmen du Colombier
Menhir Big Pierre
Dolmen du Colombier
Dolmen du Colombier
Nearby is the approximately 3.5 m high menhir de Grosse Pierre , one of only nine preserved menhirs in the department.
See also
literature
- Alain Beeching: Le Néolithique de l'Ardèche. Bilan des trente dernières années. Ardèche Archéologie, No. 30, 2013, pp. 28–34,
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Coordinates: 44 ° 19 ′ 52 " N , 4 ° 32 ′ 53.2" E