Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Dolmen de Barbehère
Saint-Germain-d'Esteuil, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Dolmen de Barbehère (cad. A1 105) : inscription par arrêté du 28 novembre 1989
- Protection dates
- 1989/11/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- dolmen
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Bois des Haures
- Commune
- Saint-Germain-d'Esteuil
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.29667, -0.85478
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083892
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "103 Blaye." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Seul dolmen en état du Médoc, il renferme encore de nombreux vestiges néolithiques et chalcolithiques. Il s'agit d'une sépulture mégalithique typique de la région, construite en forme d'allée couverte mais se rapprochant architecturalement des dolmens à couloir.
English translation
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History
The only dolmen in good condition in the Médoc, it still contains numerous Neolithic and Chalcolithic remains. This is a typical megalithic sepulture of the region, built in the form of a covered alley but architecturally approaching passage dolmens.
Nearby in the register
- Monument avec statue de la Viergemonumentunder 1 mi
- Portions des vestiges du théâtre gallo-romain de Brionthéâtre1 mi
- Statue de la Viergemonument2 mi
- Château de Beyzacchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.