Pierre couverte (Parigné-le-Pôlin)

The dolmen Pierre couverte (also called Bois de Bruon or Pierre druidique ) is located in the forest of Bruon, northwest of Parigné-le-Pôlin near Allonnes in the Sarthe department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

The Pierre couverte is a collapsed dolmen, the sandstone capstone of approximately 2.0 × 1.5 m lies almost horizontally on the tilted bearing stones.

The dolmen has been classified as a monument historique since 1982 .

literature

Jean-Paul Henri Berthet: À la découverte des mégalithes en Sarthe. Berger, Le Mans 1992, p. 20.