Aillevans dolmen
The Neolithic dolmen of Aillevans is located in the Bois du Blusseret forest near Aillevans in the Haute-Saône department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France . It was discovered in 1973 and has been a French cultural monument since 1979 . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen , which unlike the dolmen of Santoche does not belong to the Schwörstadt type widespread in this region , but gave its name to a group of its own, consisted of an approximately 2.4 m wide and 5.0 m long rectangular chamber with an anteroom, the consisted of the two side walls, the end and the front panel with the access in the east and the disappeared ceiling panel. The collapsed side walls consist of one panel on the right and two panels on the left. The height of the chamber was about 0.9 m.
The dolmen was initially in a round hill. This first hill was built over with a trapezoidal hill 19 m long. Its nine meter wide, longer side formed the front side, which was presumably drawn in and, like the Dolmen des Issières in the nearby Brevilliers , had a forecourt formed by ante . The hill made of flat field stones ended at the level of the ceiling slab. Groups of four pillars were found on either side of the hill. The system is now in a hall.
Incomplete information about the finds comes from old excavations and observations. The burial practices and the exact timing are still largely unknown. However, the facilities are considered to be the product of the Horgen culture , which was influenced in part by the Allée couvertes of the Seine-Oise-Marne region , but even more by the dolmens of Petit-Chasseur . The artifacts found consisted of diamond-shaped arrowheads with stems and a flint dagger .
Systematics of the plants
In the Jura arch , the megalithic systems can be divided into three groups:
- the Dolmen of the Schwörstadt type with a square chamber and a soul hole, located under a round mound of earth
- the structurally identical dolmens of the Aesch type, but with a rectangular chamber
- the Aillevans-type dolmens with a rectangular chamber and anteriorly or laterally protruding ante (so-called antenna dolmen). The chamber can be surrounded by a round mound of earth or by trapezoidal dry stone masonry .
The Auvernier Allée couverte may also be of this type.
literature
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 p. 181
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00102104 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Web links
- Description and pictures (French)
Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 4.7 " N , 6 ° 24 ′ 23.8" E