Barzun dolmen
The Dolmen of Barzun (also called “Coarraze dolmen” or “Dolmen de Hours-Barzun”), discovered in 1968 in a field in Barzun in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in southern France , dates from the end of the Neolithic or the beginning of the Bronze Age between 4,000 and 3,500 years ago . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen was examined and dismantled in 1968 and rebuilt in 1972 by Georges Laplace (1918-2004) in Arudy (a village about 50 km from Barzun). In 1990 Laplace moved to Coarraze and the dolmen was given to the community and installed in the Town Hall Square. In 1995 Barzun tried unsuccessfully to get the "stray" dolmen back, which in 2010 succeeded.
The originally oval structure measured around 20.0 × 10.0 meters. The burial mound had a maximum height of 1.5 m. When the hill was removed, two tangent cairns made of boulders appeared. The dolmen was discovered in the smaller one. The chamber was robbed at an early stage and the archaeologists did not find any bones or objects in it.
See also
literature
- Bruno Marc: Dolmens et Menhirs en Languedoc et Roussillon. 27 Circuits de Découverte Prehistorique. Les Presses du Languedoc, Montpellier 1999, ISBN 2-85998-190-X .
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Coordinates: 43 ° 12 '52.6 " N , 0 ° 7' 45.7" W.