Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Dolmen de la Pierre Folle
Chenommet, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le dolmen (cad. ZC 8) : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 2012
- Protection dates
- 2012/07/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, dolmen
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique moyen
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Chenommet
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.93005, 0.26207
- Mérimée reference
- PA16000050
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "69 Angouleme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Il s'agit d'un monument constitué d'un cairn d'aspect irrégulier contenant un dolmen. Actuellement recouvert d'une végétation dense et de gravats provenant du labour des cultures voisines, son état apparait très dégradé et son plan bouleversé. Une légende selon laquelle une pierre surmontant le tumulus se mettait à danser, expliquerait sa dénomination de « Pierre Folle ».
English translation
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History
This is a monument consisting of a cairn of irregular appearance containing a dolmen. Currently covered with dense vegetation and rubble from the ploughing of neighbouring crops, its state appears highly degraded and its plan disrupted. A legend according to which a stone surmounting the tumulus used to dance would explain its designation as 'Pierre Folle' (Mad Stone).
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Hilaireéglise1 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Château de Bayerschâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.