Pierre couverte (Montbenault)
The polygonal dolmen Pierre Couverte von Montbenault (also called Mont-Benault or Pierre Couverte du Loncheneau) is a dolmen southeast of Beaulieu-sur-Layon on the border with Faye-d'Anjou near Angers , 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 ).
The chamber is bounded by five orthostats , one of which has been overturned and has been supplemented with modern masonry. According to Godard, it included a sixth column that was removed in 1862. Célestin Port (1828–1901) reported in 1878 that this sixth pillar was broken.
The chamber is 1.45 m long and 1.35 m wide. It is covered with a single capstone. The stones are made of slate and pudding stone . One plate is made of quartz .
At Dolmen one was scratched from Flint found.
See also
literature
- Michel Gruet, Mégalithes en Anjou, Cheminements , 2005 (1re éd. 1967, actualization de Charles-Tanguy Le Roux) ISBN 284478397X pp. 32–34
Coordinates: 47 ° 18 ′ 24.2 " N , 0 ° 34 ′ 31.6" W.