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Gariotts or Garioten ( Occitan gariòta ) are round or angular stone huts made of dry stone from the area around Cahors in the Lot department , which were built without mortar. They sometimes have the appearance of a very small nave with an apse at the end. The interior furnishings include protruding panels, bench altars , and sometimes niches. They are a small local variety of the Cabanes in the south of France , which are mostly round and larger.
Many gariots were torn down. The first to stand in the areas that were cleared for machine- friendly agriculture , especially in Bas- Quercy .
The dolmen in the Bois des Escures 1 + 2 are located east of a forest path between the villages of Beauregard and Varaire , southwest of Limogne-en-Quercy in the Lot department in the Midi in France . From Dolmen No. 1 only a few stones are preserved. A dressing room was built on its remains.
literature
- Pierre Dalon: Les cabanes en pierre sèche du causse de Limogne (Lot). In: Bulletin de la Société des études littéraires, scientifiques et artistiques du Lot. Vol. 94, No. 2, 1973, ISSN 0755-2483 , pp. 103-131.
Web links
- Description (Eng / French) and pictures on irishmegaliths.org.uk
- Bois des Escures 1 - Description and pictures