Saillant dolmen
The Saillant dolmen (also called Palet de Samson, Palet de Roland or Grotte aux Fées) is located near the approximately 2.2 m high, Christianized menhir of Saint-Roch and the dolmen of Saint-Nectaire-le-Bas, southeast of Saillant, in Saint-Nectaire-le-Bas near Clermont-Ferrand in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Massif Central in the Auvergne in southern France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The Saillant dolmen was described by François Pommerol at the end of the 19th century. The large megalithic complex is made of basalt . Its capstone measures approximately 3.1 × 2.7 meters and has a maximum thickness of 0.55 meters. It lies in the remainder of a tumulus about 7.0 m in diameter and 1.8 to 2.0 m in height. The capstone lies over five or possibly six supporting stones. The octagonal chamber is about 2.2 m long, 2.0 m wide, 0.6 m high and opens to the west. According to F. Pommerol, the floor of the chamber was paved with irregular slabs 0.2 m to 0.4 m wide and an average thickness of 5 cm.
The dolmen was classified as a monument historique in 1862 .
See also
literature
- F. Pommerol: Les constructions mégalithiques de Saint-Nectaire. In: Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris 1876 Volume 11 No 1 pp. 14-18
- Ulrich Rosenbaum: Auvergne and Massif Central. Cologne 1981, 7th edition 1989. (DuMont art travel guide)
- 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
- Entry no.PA00092375 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 45 ° 34 ′ 11.3 " N , 3 ° 1 ′ 12.3" E