Boixe necropolis

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so-called sacrifice stone ( Pierre à sacrifice )

The necropolis of Boixe , (also known as dolmens and tumulus , which is known Boixe) a necropolis of the Neolithic at the Combe-du-Rut , in the heart of the forest of Boixe. The forest is located north of the city of Angoulême in French Charente . The necropolis and the so-called sacrifice stone ( Pierre à sacrifice ) are recognized as monuments historiques .

location

The two better preserved or restored from a series of 15 systems that were once lost in the 19th century are located about 200 m apart in the area of ​​the municipalities of Vervant (the tumulus) and Cellettes (the "sacrificial stone"). They probably date from the 4th millennium BC. Chr.

Pierre à sacrifice (Pierre du sacrifice)

The Pierre à sacrifice , apparently worked on all sides, is the visible part of a dolmen ( 45 ° 50 ′ 40 ″  N , 0 ° 8 ′ 57 ″  E ) and consists only of a plate with the engraving of a crook . The dolmen with a square burial chamber about 3.3 m long has been destroyed, the stone with the sculpture was built as the edge of a well on a farm in Vervant.

tumulus

The larger stones of the tumulus ( 45 ° 50 ′ 34 ″  N , 0 ° 8 ′ 56 ″  E ) were intact, but the outer wall, ceiling and corridor have been supplemented with limestone slabs . The system consists of the main chamber and a small side chamber. The passage runs obliquely to the chamber. The complex contains old scratches on an inner wall; the depiction of an ax and the calotte at the entrance to the side chamber are new.

  • Boixe necropolis

  • The tumulus

  • Sign board

  • entrance

  • View into the side chamber

  • Corridor (to the outside)

  • End of the corridor

literature

  • Jean-Pierre Mohen: Le Site Megalithic de Bougon (Deux-Sévres) les Aspects Symbolique er Sacrés de la Necropole . In: Problems of megalithic grave research. Lectures on the 100th birthday of Vera Leisner . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1990, ISBN 3-11-011966-8 , ( Madrid research 16), p. 79.

Web links

Commons : Dolmen de la Boixe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Necropole de la Boixe, Vervant in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Dolmen de la Boixe, Cellettes in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ List of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sculptures and engravings with anthropomorphic depiction or of anthropomorphic form (menhir statues, stele statues, menhirs) and of Neolithic to Early Bronze Age engravings on plates of megalithic systems in the French department of Charente (16), Nouvelle-Aquitaine (PDF) Swiss stone -Monuments. Retrieved September 13, 2019.