Riens dolmen
The rectangular dolmen of Riens ( French Dolmen des Riens - or Dolmen of Saint-Pierre ) is located about one kilometer northeast of Mons in the east of the Var department near the border with the Alpes-Maritimes department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The Riens dolmen was discovered in 1910 by Mizaël Edouard Edmond de Pas (1866–1941) and examined by Gérard Sauzade in 1972. The chamber has a large end plate and the walls on the north and south sides are filled with dry masonry along the entire length . Two attached orthostats , which are held at a distance by a small, flat stone at the top, form the oval access. The round hill on which the cover plate lies is about 8.0 m in diameter.
Sauzade found in the remains preserved: bone fragments, shards of a cup, arrowheads , three fox canine teeth, a pierced wolf tooth, a triangular bead made of green stone , two disc beads made of calcite and three elements of a chain made of bronze .
The dolmen reused by the people of the Bell Beaker Culture at the end of the Bronze Age is dated to the Chalcolithic .
The megalithic has architecturally very similar to the about 60 km from the Dolmen of Peycervier . Nearby is the Peygros dolmen
See also
literature
- Bernard Roudil: Les sépultures mégalithiques du Var. CNRS, Paris 1981.
- Jean Courtin: Le Néolithique de la Provence. Mém. de la SPF, 1974, Volume XI.
- Jean Courtin: Les dolmens à couloir de Provence orientale. In: L'Anthropologie, 1962
Web links
- Description French Pictures and sketches
- Entry no.PA00081680 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 43 ° 41 ′ 54.9 " N , 6 ° 43 ′ 35.7" E