La Fage dolmen
The dolmen of La Fage (also known as the Dolmen of Combettes or Dolmen des Combes) is located on the Cham des Bondons plateau , north-west of Les Bondons near Florac in the Lozère department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
On the ridge path, which leads from the menhirs of La Fage to the southwest, there is a dolmen measuring around 2.0 × 1.0 meters, lined with plates of local limestone, in the center of a cairn with a diameter of about 12.0 meters and 1.0 meters Meter height. The small dolmen simple has lost all traces of the passage. The capstone (s) have also disappeared.
It contained bone fragments, ceramics with a wavy edge, stone beads and triangular arrowheads . The discovery of an urn with a corpse burn proves that it was used in the late bronze age .
The Menhirs de la Fage and Menhir 1 by Combettes are nearby .
See also
literature
- Marcel Baudouin: Les allées couvertes coudées Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France 1917 Volume 14 No.8 pp. 391–405
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Coordinates: 44 ° 24 ′ 39.6 " N , 3 ° 35 ′ 22.9" E