Peyrelevade dolmen (Brantôme)
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The dolmen of Peyrelevade , also Dolmen La Pierre Levée (German: The raised rock ) and Dolmen du Camp-de-César , is a Neolithic megalithic complex in Brantôme in the Dordogne department in France . It stands on the north side of the Dronne in the east of the village on Rue Peyrelevade, about 50 m north of the road D 78 (Avenue Andre Malraux). In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The burial chamber is unusually high with a clear height of 2.50 m. The sandstone cover plate is about 5 m long, 2.9 m wide and 1.4 m thick. It lies horizontally on three vertical orthostats and a stone support added towards the end of the 19th century for stabilization.
The dolmen is owned by the municipality of Brantôme en Périgord and has been registered and protected as a monument historique since 1889 .
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ There are a number of dolmens in France called La Pierre Levée .
- ^ Brantôme, Dolmen dit de la Pierre Levée in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
literature
- Alain Beyneix: Monuments mégalithiques en Aquitaine , Éditions Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, 2009, ISBN 978-2-84910-957-1 , p. 34
Web links
- Dolmen dit La Pierre Levée in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 45 ° 21 ′ 40.8 " N , 0 ° 39 ′ 47" E