Dolmen of the Doulx

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The Dolmen of Doulx (also called Dolmen of Doux or Pierre Levée ) is located west of Pussigny near Marigny-Marmande in the Touraine in the Indre-et-Loire department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ). Boumiers dolmen

The 1.6 m high dolmen is made of yellow sandstone and measures around 2.8 × 3.3 meters. It is an oval dolmen, the large capstone of which rests on three of the seven orthostats , one of which is in the chamber. The oval tumulus, 8.0 to 9.0 meters in diameter, encloses the monument up to three quarters of the height of the orthostats. Probably the mound originally covered the dolmen completely, as it did with almost all of the 29 dolmens in Touraine. The chamber has been ransacked before. The dolmen is one of the smallest in the department. The 3.4-meter-long capstone, inclined to the west, lies over six ovally arranged supporting stones, with a wide gap in the east, as with all dolmens in the region. It has been applied for under protection. A menhir, which was destroyed between 1894 and 1923, was located near the eponymous courtyard Doulx.

The excavation yielded cut flints , bronzes and bones, which Louis Dubreuil Chambardel (1876–1927) examined. The skulls of Doulx are clearly brachycephalic , according to La Touraine Prehistorique . The best preserved has a length of 0.176 m and a width of 0.146 m, an index of 0.82. Machined flint is abundant about 600 meters northeast of the dolmen.

The dolmen is listed as a monument historique .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry no. PA00097930 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

literature

  • Gérard Cordier: Inventaire des mégalithes de la France, I. Indre-et-Loire. In: Sigfried J. de Laet: L'Antiquité Classique Année 1964, pp. 298-300.

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Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 44.1 ″  N , 0 ° 31 ′ 17.1 ″  E