Pierre Couverte du Mousseau
The dolmen Pierre couverte du Mousseau (also called Les Ulmes dolmen) is located in a field east of Les Ulmes , southwest of 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 collapsed dolmen of the Angevin type has a chamber about 5.0 m long and 4.0 m wide and an entrance several meters long in the northeast. Two capstones of the chamber (one broken) and one above the entrance are present but relocated. The chamber is divided into three areas by two transverse orthostats in the interior.
The dolmen has been registered as a Monument historique since 1984 .
See also
literature
- Fernand Niel: La Civilization des mégalithes, Éditions Plon, 1970
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.
Web links
Commons : Pierre couverte du Mousseau - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Dolmen dit La Pierre couverte de Mousseau in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and pictures
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 17.7 ″ N , 0 ° 10 ′ 17.5 ″ W.