Les Matignons mines
The mines of Les Matignons , French camps préhistoriques des Matignons , are two prehistoric earthworks near Juillac-le-Coq in the Charente department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region . The two fortified settlement sites were probably in the late Neolithic in the second half of the 3rd millennium BC. Was built. The Matignons culture was named after them.
description
The two mine works - Matignons I and Matignons II - have an oval, partially overlapping floor plan. Their diameter is 290 and 220 meters respectively. Its girdle consists of two parallel trenches, which are separated by masonry in the middle. The trench edges dip vertically and can be up to 2 meters deep in places. The separating masonry was piled up from chalk-lime slabs that had accumulated during the digging of the trenches. The outside of the dividing walls was made of large blocks and could reach a total height of 2.50 meters. There is no doubt that the two earthworks required an enormous amount of work.
The two complexes probably contained buildings inside, but nothing is known about their dimensions.
literature
- Claude Burnez and Humphrey Case: Les camps néolithiques des Matignons à Juillac-le-Coq (Charente) . In: Gallia Préhistoire . 1966, p. 131-245 .
- Christian Vernou: La Charente . In: coll. "Carte archéologique de la Gaule" . Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-87754-025-1 , pp. 253 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean Guilaine: La France d'avant la France . Hachette, Paris 1980, ISBN 978-2-01-011134-1 , pp. 349 .
Coordinates: 45 ° 36 ′ 8 ″ N , 0 ° 15 ′ 35 ″ W.