Peyrelevade dolmen (Paussac-et-Saint-Vivien)

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Peyrelevade dolmen

The dolmen of Peyrelevade (also called dolmen of Prézat ) is located south of Paussac-et-Saint-Vivien , near the D93 between St. Vivien and Paussac near Périgueux in the Dordogne department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

The dolmen consists of a layered red-brown / black capstone, which lies on five limestone bearing stones about 2.0 meters above the ground and covers a chamber of about 3.0 × 2.0 m. A fallen capstone and a second chamber are at the western end. There are other big stones. Perhaps it was once a much larger dolmen with multiple chambers.

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Nearby is the pseudodolmen Peyre d'Ermale .

See also

literature

  • Alain Beyneix: Monuments mégalithiques en Aquitaine. Editions Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2009, ISBN 978-2-84910-957-1 , p. 34.
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

Web links

Commons : Dolmen de Peyrelevade (Paussac-et-Saint-Vivien)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 45 ° 19 ′ 49.5 ″  N , 0 ° 31 ′ 50.2 ″  E