Gaoutabry dolmen
The dolmen of Gaoutabry (also called Gautabry) is located in La Londe-les-Maures , in the Bay of Hyères . With a length of six meters and an area of nine square meters, it is the largest dolmen in the Var département in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ). Discovered by Baron Gustav von Bonstetten in 1876 and identified as three small adjacent dolmens. Cotte then discovered in 1924 that it was a large dolmen. In 1988 the site was classified as a Monument Historique .
A corridor that penetrates the remains of the hill border, is slightly offset to the right and is narrower than the megalithic complex , offers access to two consecutive chambers, which are slightly trapezoidal as a whole (wide at the back) and separated by massive stones. The chambers consist of 15 thin, not too high panels and remnants of the intermediate masonry . Since no traces of a cover were found, archaeologists assume that it had an atypical cover made of wooden beams. The burial mound (made of earth and stones), which previously covered the complex, but has been almost completely removed, was about fifteen meters in diameter.
The remains of around 34 people were found here, buried around 4,500 years ago during the Bronze Age . The excavations revealed broken pottery, stone tools, arrowheads, some pearls and a cut fragment of an ax.
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Coordinates: 43 ° 10 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 6 ° 14 ′ 19.7 ″ E