Dolmen la Pierre Levée (Janville)
Discovered in 1860, the La Pierre Levée dolmen is located in Janville-sur-Juine in the Essonne department , south of Paris in France . The old cadastre calls this place "champtier de la Pierre Levée". In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The Neolithic megalithic complex consists of eleven stones, nine bearing stones and two cap stones, one of which weighs around 16 tons. It is an angevin type dolmen. The trapezoid chamber is about 4.3 m long. It is 2.25 m lower in width on the entrance side and 2.58 m on the east side. The supporting stones of the side walls, which are inclined slightly inward, have a total length of 2.5 m on average, determined during the excavation. The dolmen initially had a hill made of stones and earth, but it was covered. Around 1865 or 1870, a dozen (other accounts speak of seven or ten) skeletons are said to have been discovered, but they did not rest on stone slabs as in other dolmens, but on a bed of small round pebbles that probably came from the banks of the Juine. In 1872, an amateur archaeologist bought the dolmen to stop any further stone removal.
It has been under protection as a Monument historique since 1949 .
In addition to the La Pierre Levée dolmen, the department also has dolmen le Grès de Linas and Roche qui Tourne .
Remarks
- ↑ The dolmen angevin is an allée couverte of the Loire type with a (retracted) trilith portal as an entrance, like the dolmen de la Pierre Folle in Bournand
Web links
literature
- Christophe Sence: L'Ile-de-France de la préhistoire. Parigrams, Paris 2004, ISBN 9782840963585 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 30 ′ 33.4 " N , 2 ° 15 ′ 45.5" E