Dolmen of Séchebec
The Dolmen of Séchebec is located on Rue de l'Échassier to the east of Cognac , in the west of the Charente department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
It is an Angevin type dolmen excavated in 1958. The broken capstone, resting on eight bearing stones, is approximately 8.05 m long, 2.8 m wide and 0.5 m thick. The inside of the chamber is 2.4 m wide and 4.8 m long. The orthostats originally form a chamber about 1.60 m high. The dolmen was the subject of destruction at an indefinite time. No traces of the hill that was once covered were found.
The finds include 500 ceramic shards from around 20 vessels. Some were bell beakers. Of the others, an urn is a rare evidence of the Neolithic Peu-Richardien group (3400–2900 BC). The other objects are knives, arrowheads , stone and bone tools and needles, as well as pearl jewelry and teeth.
Some of the objects found date from modern times: a Merovingian belt buckle and a penny from the French Empire (1852 to 1870).
The Dolmen of Séchebec was declared a Monument historique in 1930 and restored after the excavation of 1958.
literature
- Le Nord-Charente au Néolithique moyen et récent (3500–2900 av. J.-C.): enceintes fossoyées, sépultures mégalithiques et territoires. General Council of the Charente
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Coordinates: 45 ° 41 ′ 33 " N , 0 ° 18 ′ 35.4" W.