La Pierre-qui-vire (Colombe-lès-Vesoul)
The dolmen La Pierre-qui-vire ( German for the stone that turns ) is located in the commune of Colombe-lès-Vesoul in the French department of Haute-Saône and is one of the 18 megalithic cultural monuments in the former Franche-Comté region . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
description
It is the remains of a Neolithic communal grave from the 3rd millennium BC. The monument consists of a square chamber with a side length of 1.9 m, which is open to the northeast. The three supporting stones that delimit the chamber protrude approximately 70 cm from the ground. The slipped capstone was worked in a circle at an unknown point in time; its diameter is 1.9 m with a thickness of 40 cm.
Thanks to an action by the Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts de Vesoul , the dolmen has been a monument historique since August 24, 1976 .
A legend has grown up around the dolmen, according to which the capstone revolves once every hundred years.
swell
- Information board by the dolmen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00102141 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Web links
- Description and pictures (French)
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 53.8 " N , 6 ° 14 ′ 26.7" E