Peycervier dolmen

The small dolmen of Peycervier is located west of the village of Lorgues near Saint-Raphaël in the Var department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

The dolmen was acquired by the city and was the subject of restoration by Helen Barge in 1990. It lies in an oval cairn made of rubble that measures 12.5 x 11.0 m and is about 1.5 m high. The square chamber measures 1.6 m and is formed by dry stone walls on both sides , the end stone and two entrance pillars. A 1.7 m long and 0.9 m wide corridor opens to the southwest. It consists of a low dry stone wall on the north side and a small plate crowned by a wall in the south. The corridor ends inside the hill at three stones lying on top of each other.

The chamber was completely emptied in 1930. The passage was excavated in 1973 by Gérard Sauzade. The grave goods consisted of a short dagger blade, arrowheads , devices made of flint and a variety of decorative elements (Olivaria pearls, pendants, a bronze ring). This suggests that the dolmen was built in the Chalcolithic Era and reused in the Bronze Age .