Le Carroir Bon Air

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Le Carroir Bon Air
Le Carroir Bon Air

The Dolmen Le Carroir Bon Air (also called Dolmen of Ligré) is believed to be an “angevin” type dolmen , although there is no certainty about the former existence of its “portal”. It is located north of the village of Ligré , near Anché in Touraine in the southwest of the Indre-et-Loire department in France .

description

The rectangular dolmen in the middle of a field is about 7.0 meters long and 3.5 meters wide. It has a split ceiling plate made of two parts, supported by four orthostats and two central stones lying on the floor, which are probably part of the supporting structure. The stones are of local origin and are made of limestone and sandstone . The chain of curbs that surrounded the hill that initially covered it has disappeared. Like all dolmens in the region in the Neolithic , between the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. BC, built, the presence of a portico that would connect it with the “Anjou” type remains controversial. The lack of finds has also limited the assignment to this day.

The state-owned, privately owned dolmen was classified Monument historique in 1889 .

Basement

The basement Pièces du Chemin Neuf, discovered in 1983, is located about 400 m east of the dolmen. The current access is a hole with a diameter of about 0.80 m leads approximately in the middle into an approximately 9.0 meter long corridor that ends in the rubble in the northwest. To the south-west of the entrance, behind a 1.2 m long bottleneck with a diameter of 0.4 m, lies a long, multi-curved passage. An intersection allows access to two elongated side chambers, each 2.0 × 3.0 m. They have vertical openings designed for ventilation. The corridor ends in the rubble in the west.

literature

  • René Coursault: Histoire de la Touraine: les traditions populaires [archive], vol. 15, éditions Maisonneuve & Larose, 1980, p. 26.
  • Michel Gruet: Inventaire des mégalithes de la France: Indre-et-Loire de Gérard Cordier , In: Bulletin du Groupe vendéen d'études préhistoriques, no 13, 1985, p. 53.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dolmen is the generic term in France for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
  2. ↑ The Dolmen angevin is an allée couverte of the Loire or Anjou type with a (retracted) trilith portal as access.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 6 ′ 51.6 ″  N , 0 ° 16 ′ 22.9 ″  E