Roquo-Traoucado dolmen
The Dolmen of Roquo-Traoucado (also called Dolmen de Roquetrucade or Tombeau de Roland ) is located in the foothills southeast of the Montagne Noire between Caunes-Minervois and Villeneuve-Minervois in the Aude department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ). The dolmen gets its Occitan name from the rock on which it lies.
The remains of a round cairn around 18.0 meters in diameter surrounded by several large stones contain the remains of the 4.0 meter long and 1.0 meter wide chamber in the middle. Only the lateral orthostats of the dolmen, excavated in 1972, remain. There are no ceiling stones. The corridor is unusually oriented to the southwest.
Among the items found were copper and bronze bracelets. Germain Sicard mentioned some human teeth that were found in 1929. Dating showed that the dolmen was built in the 3rd millennium BC. Was used for a long time.
The Dolmen du Vieil Homme is about 200 meters to the east .
See also
literature
- Germain Sicard: Essai sur les monuments mégalithiques du département de l'Aude. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 1929 26-9, pp. 436–454.
Coordinates: 43 ° 19 ′ 49.4 " N , 2 ° 32 ′ 11.8" E