Dolmen du Molí del Vent
The Dolmen du Molí del Vent (also Moulin à vent - German "the windmill" ) is located on a hill north of Bélestra in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The north-west-south-east oriented dolmen à couloir is a gangway dolmen. His cairn , about 0.5 m high, is relatively large with a diameter of about 9.0 m. Its uncovered approximately 5.0 m long corridor made of dry masonry and individual slabs is wide and long. It becomes a little narrower in the direction of the approximately 2.0 × 1.0 m measuring chamber. The dolmen is open in the southeast and consists of four bearing stones and a capstone of 2.9 × 1.75 m. Due to its structure, it must date from the second period of the Neolithic , between the late 4th and the beginning of the 3rd millennium.
- Dolmen du Molí del Vent
Ideally gang dolmen
The excavations yielded arrowheads made of green flint and ceramics from the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age.
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).
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Coordinates: 42 ° 43 ′ 35.6 " N , 2 ° 36 ′ 21.1" E