Pierre Couverte (Saugré)

The Dolmen Pierre Couverte von Saugré (also called Dolmen von Saulgré or Saugray ) is located northeast of Dénezé-sous-Doué in the Maine-et-Loire department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

description

The rectangular dolmen of the Angevin type consists of a six meter long, five meter wide and seventy centimeter thick capstone and three almost 1.8 meter high, more than two meters wide and at least 0.5 m thick bearing stones, one of which is crooked . In the 19th century there were still two stones lying on the site of the portal, today only one is visible.

The dolmen was entered in the Inventaire général du patrimoine culture in 1986.

In the municipality are also the Dolmen de la Pierre Pétouse, Dolmen Pierre Couverte (Chavais) and the Menhir Pierre qui Vire de Virolais, as well as the caves of Les Mousseaux (with the Cave aux Sculptures), a historic monument since 1969.

literature

Michel Gruet: Dolmens angevins à portique , in: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France , Volume 53 (1956), No. 7, pp. 397-401. doi : 10.3406 / e.g. 1956.3355
Michel Gruet, Charles-Tanguy Le Roux (editor): Mégalithes en Anjou , Cheminements, [Le Coudray-Macouard] 2005, ISBN 2-84478-397-X ; (Extended new edition by: Michel Gruet: Inventaire des mégalithes de la France , Vol. 2: Maine-et-Loire , Editions du Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1967.)

Individual evidence

↑ Michel Gruet: Dolmens angevins à portique . In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France , Volume 53, No. 7, pp. 397–401, 1956 ( digitized in Persée , French)
↑ Michel Gruet, Charles-Tanguy Le Roux (editor): Mégalithes en Anjou , Cheminements, [Le Coudray-Macouard] 2005, pp. 100-101, ISBN 2-84478-397-X ; (Extended new edition by: Michel Gruet: Inventaire des mégalithes de la France , Vol. 2: Maine-et-Loire , Editions du Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1967.)
↑ Dolmen la Pierre Couverte de Saugré in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

Dolmen la Pierre Couverte de Saugré in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Dolmen de la Pierre Couverte de Saugré ou de Saugray, Denézé-sous-Doué , French description and pictures, Mégalithes de Légende, 25 September 2014, accessed on 28 October 2019.

Remarks

↑ Angevin dolmens occur particularly in the Maine-et-Loire department. They have a separate lower access part (e.g. Dolmen de Corzé , Dolmen de la Forêt in Gennes and Dolmen de Suette ).

47.253527 -0.261082Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '12.7 " N , 0 ° 15' 39.9" W.

[Gruet_1956-2] Michel Gruet: Dolmens angevins à portique . In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France , Volume 53, No. 7, pp. 397–401, 1956 ( digitized in Persée , French)

[Gruet-LeRoux-3] Michel Gruet, Charles-Tanguy Le Roux (editor): Mégalithes en Anjou , Cheminements, [Le Coudray-Macouard] 2005, pp. 100-101, ISBN 2-84478-397-X ; (Extended new edition by: Michel Gruet: Inventaire des mégalithes de la France , Vol. 2: Maine-et-Loire , Editions du Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1967.)

[4] Dolmen la Pierre Couverte de Saugré in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

[Anm._Anm_1.-1] Angevin dolmens occur particularly in the Maine-et-Loire department. They have a separate lower access part (e.g. Dolmen de Corzé , Dolmen de la Forêt in Gennes and Dolmen de Suette ).