Courteuge dolmen

The Dolmen of Courteuge located in the small village Courteuge south of the Strait of Blesle by Anzat-Le-Luguet in Leyvaux in Massiac in the north of Cantal department near the border with the department of Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dome in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

The dolmen, located near a house, consists of a large ceiling slab that rests on three supporting stones.

literature

Ulrich Rosenbaum: Auvergne and Massif Central. Cologne 1981, 7th edition 1989. (DuMont art travel guide)
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 .