Dolmen de Bagneux

The dolmen is a megalithic site in Bagneux Bagneux at Saumur on the Loire in the department of Maine -et -Loire in France. Dolmen is used in France as a generic term for systems of any kind, the dolmen of type " Angevin " is located in the town at the junction of Rue de l' Arche by the Rue du Dolmen in the garden of a small cafés.

In its size, it outperforms most of the approximately 4,500 dolmens of France by far. The dolmen is outside about 23 m long and has an inside length of almost 18 m and a width of about five meters (90 square meters of floor space and 200 cubic meter ). His pre-chamber is partially destroyed. The largest of the three slabs (7.3 m long ) is estimated to weigh about 90 tons. It still consists of 15 additional stones representing a total weight of over 500 tons. At its height it is only by some Iberian plants surpassed as the Cueva de Menga in Spain.

Like other dolmen was the La Grande Pierre Couverte Bagneux a spacious facility, which must have contained numerous human skeletons during the Neolithic. However, the first excavation in 1775 yielded no finds. In the field of Dolmens three axes were discovered in polished stone and a flint knife later, probably from the dolmens.

In Bagneux there are among other monuments yet another dolmen, called Bagneux the small dolmens, although he also has a considerable size and may be the remnant of a larger dolmen.