Cornevache dolmen
The Cornevache dolmen is located northwest of Selommes in the Loir-et-Cher department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The Cornevache Dolmen is an east-west oriented portal dolmen. It has a square chamber with a side length of 2.0 m, which is covered with a sub-trapezoidal capstone (2.2 m by 2.0 m). The chamber is bounded by an end plate and two orthostats each on the south and north sides. The chamber entrance is in the east. In front of it is a destroyed portico , of which only two bearing stones have survived.
Plate dimensions
- End plate approximately 2.0 x 1.0 x 0.75 m
- Orthostat South 1 about 1.2 × 0.9 × 0.8 m
- Orthostat South 2 about 1.0 × 0.6 × 1.3 m
- Orthostat north 1 about 1.1 × 0.7 × 0.8 m
- Orthostat North 2 about 0.85 × 0.45 × 0.6 m
The structure of the dolmen was believed to have been damaged during the excavation. All slabs are made from locally available Beauce limestone , with the exception of the sandstone capstone , the nearest outcrop is about 1.25 km away.
The dolmen was excavated in 1925. According to the excavators, the floor of the chamber was covered with a fairly regular stone pavement. The archaeological material consists of two unperforated wild boar tusks, small human bones mostly from young people, ten worn teeth and a piece of red ocher . The chamber had probably been looted beforehand.
The dolmen was listed as a historical monument in 1980.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00098602 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
literature
- Jackie Despriée, Claude Leymarios: Inventaire des mégalithes de France, 3-Loir-et-Cher, Paris, Éditions du CNRS coll. 1er supplément à Gallia Préhistoire , 1974, ISBN 978-2-222-01569-7 pp. 129–130 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 36.4 " N , 1 ° 10 ′ 29.4" E