Pierre Folle
The Dolmen Pierre Folle ( German for “crazy stone” ) and the Allée couverte are megalithic structures built around 4500 years ago in the north of the city of Montguyon in the Charente-Maritime department in France . They have been a listed building since 1889.
investment
The avenue couverte is about 16.0 m long, 1.5 m wide and 2.0 m high in the west. 10 bearing stones and two of the original three cap stones have been preserved. Some bearing stones are inclined slightly inwards. The large capstone at the western end is 1.5 meters thick and weighs about 30 tons. The entrance to the almost west-east oriented gallery grave is in the northeast. The stones come from a radius of 2.5 km. The complex, built in the Aquitaine style, was originally covered by a mound of earth .
The Monguyon dolmen at the western end is apparently just a multitude of large stones. In detail you can see a simple chamber with access to the north. One side forms a stone of the avenue couverte.
- Pierre Folle - Montguyon
Another dolmen of the same name
Other dolmen or Allées couvertes of the same name are the Allée couverte de la Pierre-Folle near Commequiers southwest of Nantes , the Dolmen la Pierre-Folle near Saint-Priest-la-Feuille (Creuse) and the Dolmen de la Pierre Folle near Bournand ( Maine-et-Loire).
Footnotes
- ↑ Dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds in France (see: French nomenclature ).
literature
- Bernard Bordelais: Le Grand Temple de Haute-Saintonge. Le Croit vif edition, Paris 2008 ISBN 978-2-916104-42-3 .
Coordinates: 45 ° 13 ′ 39 " N , 0 ° 10 ′ 42.8" W.