Dolmen du Vieil Homme
The Dolmen du Vieil Homme ( German the "Dolmen of the old man" ) - also " Dolmen de la Jagantière " or "Palet de Roland" ( German "Roland's sword" ). It is located near Villeneuve-Minervois in the north of the Aude department in France . Other dolmens with the nickname Palet de Roland are Caixa de Rotllan and the Dolmen des Fados near Pépieux-Minervois. In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
It is a small dolmen from the 3rd millennium BC. BC with a very narrow entrance, built during the Neolithic Age , today 389 meters above sea level, overlooking the plains of the Minervois and Narbonne, and restored in 1972. The approximately north-south-oriented chamber, formed from support plates inclined slightly inward, measures around 3.0 m × 2.0 m and is covered by a single large capstone. The right side is drawn in and the access is coaxial. Remnants of a small pile of stones surround the chamber. As the excavations showed, it had a diameter of 8.5 m and was framed by curbs.
Human bones and flint fragments were found.
About 200 meters to the west is the Roquo-Traoucado dolmen .
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).
- Germain Sicard: Essai sur les Monuments mégalithiques du département de l'Aude In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 1929 26-9 pp. 436–454
Web links
- Entry no.PA00102920 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description Engl. and picture
Coordinates: 43 ° 20 ′ 21 ″ N , 2 ° 28 ′ 57 ″ E