Dolmen du Bois du Feu
The Dolmen du Bois du Feu (also called Petite Pierre Couverte) is located near the “Voie Romaine” road in Bois-du-feu (firewood) in St-Hilaire-St-Florent near Saumur in the Maine-et-Loire department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
description
The large monument, long used as a house, was supplemented by rough masonry after its early damage. From the beginning the chamber was divided with a partition. At the edge of the partition wall there is a vertical grooving groove (French: polisher). Each chamber is covered with its own ceiling tile.
The dolmen was originally an Angevin porticoed dolmen common in central western France, often divided and covered with a tumulus, with a straight facade at the front and a rounded one at the back.
See also
literature
- Michel Gruet: Mégalithes en Anjou, Cheminements, 2005. (1re éd. 1967, actualization de Charles-Tanguy Le Roux), ISBN 284478397X
Remarks
- ↑ The dolmen angevin is an allée couverte of the Loire type with a (retracted) trilith portal as an entrance, like the dolmen de la Pierre Folle in Bournand.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 1 ″ N , 0 ° 7 ′ 29.6 ″ W.