Dolmen from the Coll de la Llosa

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Dolmen from the Coll de la Llosa

The dolmen of the Coll de la Llosa is a megalithic complex on the Coll de la Llosa mountain pass between the villages of Bouleternère , Casefabre and Saint-Michel-de-Llotes in the eastern foreland of the Canigou massif, in the north of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in France . The dolmen has served as a boundary marker for the three places since ancient times - at least since the early 19th century.

In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

description

The gangdolmen ( French dolmen à couloir ) restored by Jean-Philippe Bocquenet in 1994 dates from the 4th millennium BC. BC, which connects it with the Neolithic culture of the Chasséen , which was also at home in the eastern Pyrenees. It is surrounded by a tumulus ten meters in diameter. Like other dolmens in the region, the archaeological site is located on a high point that dominates the area, here the deep valley of the Boulès .

The 3.5 m long corridor of the dolmen leads right-aligned into an approximately square chamber, which is delimited by six supporting stones. One appeared to have kept its original position; the others had been tilted or moved before the dolmen was restored. The chamber is covered with a projecting plate (2.4 m long, 1.5 m wide and 0.35 m thick), which, according to Jean Abélanet (1925-2019), bears engravings in the form of 34 crosses and 82 bowls . The chamber had been looted in ancient times. The ground was dug deep so that the stability of the panels was endangered.

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It was first described by Eugène Devaux in 1934. In 1949 a study by Pierre Ponsich (1912–1999) and Maurice Iché followed, and in 1996 by Jean-Philippe Bocquenet.

Nearby are the Dolmen de les Rieres and the Dolmen de Creu de la Llosa .

See also

literature

  • Jean Abélanet: Itinéraires mégalithiques: dolmens et rites funéraires en Roussillon et Pyrénées nord-catalanes, Canet, Trabucaire, 2011, ISBN 9782849741245 .
  • Jean-Philippe Bocquenet: Casefabre. Dolmen du Coll de la Llosa , in: Bilan Scientifique Régional Languedoc-Roussillon 1995 , 1996, pp. 138 and 168.
  • Enric Carreras Vigorós, Josep Tarrús Galter: 181 anys de recerca megalítica a la Catalunya Nord (1832–2012) In: Annals de l'Institut d'Estudis Gironins , No 54, 2013, pp. 31–184

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugène Devaux: Dolmens à gravures en Roussillon , in: Bulletin de la Société Agricole, Scientifique et Littéraire des Pyrénées-Orientales , Vol. 58 (1934), pp. 225-239.
  2. ↑ Jean-Philippe Bocquenet: Casefabre. Dolmen du Coll de la Llosa , in: Bilan Scientifique Régional Languedoc-Roussillon 1995 , 1996, pp. 138 and 168.

Coordinates: 42 ° 37 '49.8 "  N , 2 ° 36' 20.9"  E