Roche à Trois Pieds

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The Roche à Trois Pieds (also called Dolmen de Martinvast ) is located near Martinvast in the Manche department in Normandy in France .

It was first mentioned in 1833, when north-east of the castle near the L'Oraille farm there was a dolmen consisting of three quartz stones arranged in a triangle , supported by a huge block of quartz about 3.0 × 3.0 × 2, 0 m are covered.

However, it is a pseudodolmen ( French site naturel ) which is listed as a dolmen in some lists, although the shape does not correspond to any common regional megalithic system, the material occurs on site and no finds have been made.

literature

  • Vincent Carpentier, Emmanuel Ghesquiére, Cyril Marcigny: Archéologie en Normandie. Edition Quest-France, Rennes 2007, ISBN 978-2-7373-4164-9 , ( Collection Histoire ).
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The term dolmen is the generic term in France for megalithic structures of all types

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Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 55.5 ″  N , 1 ° 39 ′ 3.2 ″  W.