Le cairn du Chateau a Angers (Maine-et-Loire)

摘要

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.