Dolmen du Montheil
The Dolmen du Montheil (also Dolmen de Monteil ) is located in a field south of the river La Gartempe, west of the village of Folles near Limoges in the northeast of the Haute-Vienne department in France . It is named after the neighboring hamlet of Montheil to the south . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen consists of pairs of bearing stones that have collapsed on one side and on which the long capstone rests at an angle. It is made of slate and there was a menhir close to it . The Dolmen des Goudours and Dolmen du Cluzeau are nearby.
According to archaeologists, there was a flint grinder in Montheil, which mainly processed raw materials from the Le Grand-Pressigny flint mine in the Touraine in the Indre-et-Loire department , 125 km away . The yellow flint (known as pressignia ) is found all over part of Western Europe.
The dolmen has been classified as a monument historique since 1945 .
literature
- Roger Crédot Guy Lintz: Le dolmen de Bagnol à Fromental (Haute-Vienne) . In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française , 2002, pp. 81–90.
Web links
- Dolmen de Monteil in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and picture (French)
- Description (English)
Coordinates: 46 ° 6 '46.9 " N , 1 ° 26' 36.9" E