Allée couverte des Grèves de Frécul

The Allée couverte des Grèves de Frécul is a dolmen in France, dated by typological estimate to 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. It originally stood at Barbuise, about 3,5 km south-south-west of the town, in the bois du Charnier, near the farm of Frécul. It is now in the courtyard of the musée Saint-Loup at Troyes.

The monument was a north-south passage linking a burial chamber to the largest of the dolmens of Frécul. It includes seven orthostates, three covering slabs and four smaller slabs at the chamber entrance. The chamber measures 4,40 m long, 1,55 m wide and 1,25 m high.

The allée was excavated in place in 1864 and moved in 1874 to the courtyard of the musée Saint-Loup so that stone quarrying would not destroy it. Finds included flint tools, a black rock adze, the butt of a green stone axe, animal bones, a shell and pottery sherds linked to the Seine-Oise-Marne culture and the Bronze Age. Two vessels are known from drawings but have disappeared.

The monument was registered as a historic monument in 1993. The surrounding plain of the Seine was heavily occupied in the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, with burials, enclosures, settlements and other monuments recorded at nearby sites. Monuments of this kind in France often date to the Late Neolithic, about 4000 to 3000 BCE, and many were covered with earth or smaller stones to form a mound.

Allée couverte des Grèves de Frécul is a dolmen in Barbuise, France. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Allée couverte des Grèves de Frécul", shown in the original language.