Dolmen of Dégoutay
The Dolmen of Dégoutay (also called Tumulus des Mauvans ) is located on a largely preserved round cairn in the forest near Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey in the Alpes-Maritimes department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen was discovered and described by Casimir Bottin in 1880. According to his description, the stone mound then covered an area of 25 square meters. The trapezoidal chamber is formed by five rough stone slabs. The largest is the end plate in the east. It measures 1.7 × 1.1 m. The side panels are largely supplemented by dry masonry . On the west side, two large front panels leave space for the central access, which is formed by lower panels and masonry. Inside the chamber, the broken ceiling plate (1.32 x 0.82 m) covered the finds.
Since the skeletons were not anatomically connected, Bottin believes that he encountered a disturbed chamber. Bottin found the jaw in the middle, found 230 teeth and concluded that 8 to 10 adults and a child aged 16 to 18 months were buried. The finds include: a very coarse ceramic vase, three crescent-shaped pendants made of boar tusks with perforations in the center, three chains with small pearls and shells of small land snails (Helix obvoluta), a bronze, three small bones, several small fossil shells from geological layers that are not can be found in the vicinity, and fragments of rock crystal .
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Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ 59.7 ″ N , 6 ° 49 ′ 2.7 ″ E