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<< Our Photo Pages >> Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in France in Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49

Submitted by TheCaptain on Friday, 15 September 2023  Page Views: 3487

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen du Chateau (Angers)
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 0.564 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49 Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Angers  Nearest Village: Angers
Latitude: 47.470451N  Longitude: 0.560037W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Dolmen du Chateau (Angers)
Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) submitted by w650marion : A helpful model of the five chambered cairn. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Dolmen du Chateau was found in 1997 during excavations of the Palais Comtal. You will find the dolmen is now inside imposing castle walls - over the drawbridge - then head for the gift shop! The excavated dolmen, made of grey slate or schist, has a red marker line around it to show its position in relation to the younger Roman and medieval buildings built over it.
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Dolmen du Chateau (Angers)
Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) submitted by w650marion : Three pendants excavated from the cairn. I immediately thought of the pendants found in Dyffryn Ardudwy chambered cairn in Wales. See Angie's picture - www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&gid=92&pid=194144&orderby=dateD (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen du Chateau (Angers)
Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) submitted by w650marion : Axes and blades excavated from the cairn (most from chamber 5). It was difficult to photograph due to the large plate glass window. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen du Chateau (Angers)
Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) submitted by w650marion : From this angle you can see the entrance passage of the cairn, outlined by a red line (for those visitors to the castle shop not used to looking at passage dolmen excavations) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen du Chateau (Angers)
Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) submitted by w650marion : Information board about the cairn showing the layout of the 5 chambers. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen du Chateau (Angers)
Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) submitted by w650marion : Items excavated from the cairn, most came from chamber 5. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dolmen du Chateau (Angers)
Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) submitted by w650marion : A model of the Roman building in the foreground, part of the cairn behind in grey stone outlined in red and the younger Roman and medieval buildings at the back covering most of the three of the five cairn chambers

Dolmen du Chateau (Angers)
Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) submitted by w650marion : The excavated dolmen, made of grey slate or schist, has a red marker line around it to show its position in relation to the younger Roman and medieval buildings built over it.

Dolmen du Chateau (Angers)
Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) submitted by w650marion : You will find the dolmen inside these imposing Castle walls - you have to get over the drawbridge first! Then head for the gift shop!

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Re: Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) by w650marion on Thursday, 14 September 2023
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The excavated dolmen (cairn) can be found displayed behind a glass wall at the back of the Angers Chateau gift shop.
The original site is a rocky promontory overlooking the Loire river, occupied since at least the Neolithic period. Here, a five chambered cairn was built. This rocky promontory continued to be built upon for thousands of years as it was strategically significant.
In the Roman period, a house was built over the cairn, leaving two heated rooms, one with a fireplace and wastewater drainage and the other had heating pipes inside the walls. Moving on several hundred years, the Counts of Anjou were able to use this heating system of this Roman house to heat a bathroom on the floor above in their own building.
The site was excavated relatively recently and a visitor display created during the building of a huge hall to house the Apocalypse Tapestry (dated 1375, over 100 meters long).

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www.chateau-angers.fr/en/discover/history-of-the-castle-of-angers
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Re: Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) by Silver1 on Tuesday, 08 November 2016
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Having seen this site entry a couple of months ago I scheduled another visit to the Chateau at Angers (I couln't remember seeing anything about a dolmen whan I last visited a couple of years ago). We popped into the ticket office and asked there - and they denied all knowledge of any dolmen anywhere near the chateau!!! Does anyone have any more information that may help me locate it when I go over again in the spring?
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    Re: Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) by Martin_L on Wednesday, 09 November 2016
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    Report of the excavations: http://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/bspf_0249-7638_2008_num_105_4_13786.pdf
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      Re: Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 09 November 2016
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      thanks for finding that Martin
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        Re: Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) by Martin_L on Wednesday, 09 November 2016
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        Thanks Captain. Untraceable sites usually float my boat. I am quite simple :) And a thorough report it is. Seemingly it once was an impressive site. Obviously the report has not been available online by the time you created the site page. Hence finding it now has been quite easy.
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      Re: Dolmen du Chateau (Angers) by Andy B on Wednesday, 09 November 2016
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      Very interesting, the English summary doesn't say whether the site still exists, was it covered over or excavated out? Presumably the former.

      Abstract
      Discovered in Angers in 1997 during excavations of the count’s palace, the Neolithic cairn was the
      object of preventive excavations in 2002 and 2003. Its evaluation in the form of test trenches
      allowed its various architectural elements to be identified. It is a circular cairn of about fifteen
      meters in diameter delimited by a single facing and containing several dry-stone compartments
      connected to the exterior by a single corridor (Colpo type). Outside the megalith a second
      monument of earth was also brought to light. The analysis of the site consisted of an architectural
      description of the monument and an exhaustive study of its contents but also of fundamental work
      to trace the extraction and shaping sites of the schist slabs used for the construction of the
      megalith.

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      CONCLUSION
      The team gathered around the excavation of megalith
      Angers tried, sometimes in difficult conditions
      (Co-activity difficult to manage, very short time), analyze
      in the retail and architectural components
      remains of two megalithic monuments
      particularly disturbed. So many questions
      unresolved, several certainties seem emer
      -
      ger.
      Cairn Castle belongs to the family of
      dolmens with corridor with multiple rooms, close
      Morbihan Colpo monument. If the building of
      megalith back most likely to Neo
      lithic medium II, two rooms and part of
      corridor have been re-use and a
      Redevelopment Neolithic (by group
      Brécé-Quessoy). After its abandonment, cairn will
      high leveled part (career?) then cut by a
      way from the beginning of the conquest.
      In the immediate vicinity of this first monument
      a mound is built on part of the scree
      cairn. This second megalith, destroyed by structures
      the end of the Iron Age and medieval times, has
      permit observation in its central portion of an MEA
      -
      furnishings in the form of an incorporated platform
      Shale bars uniquely arranged.
      The latter to the excavation has given us a small deposit
      ax consists of two blades which could
      support the cause one or more deceased (in
      Assuming a vocation funeral mound).
      Finally, under the mass of earth and stones which cons
      -
      titue the two monuments, the shreds of a paléosol
      have been excavated. The few items of furniture
      discovered in this archaeological layer we
      not allow to rule on the origin and function of
      Site: original habitat to the megaliths, contemporary?
      the construction of the cairn?
      Finally, in terms of history techniques, the former
      -
      traction, the size and the necessary slot forming
      some large slabs of this stone construction
      dry demonstrate slate mining methods
      perfectly controlled in the hitherto ignored framework
      the Angevin funerary architecture. At a time when "the
      Angers basin and the productive heart of the slate
      in the west of France "(Heulot, 1998, p. 3), and where
      the history of technology is the order of the day, it is not
      uninteresting to show that the slate today
      have probably perpetuates expertise No.
      -
      MENT inherited constructors of megaliths of IV
      e
      millennium BC. J.-C.
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