Dolmen d'Amenon

Dolmen d'Amenon, also called dolmen d'Amnon, is a covered passage at the place called la pièce de la Ronce in Saint-Germain-d'Arcé, in the French department of Sarthe. It is a Neolithic burial structure dated by typological estimate to 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE.

The monument is a very damaged covered passage. Only one capstone remains in place. The floor of the chamber is paved with small sandstone slabs and one enormous slab. Excavation produced limited material, including a tanged arrowhead with flanges, a scraper, a few flint flakes, and rare fragments of an unidentified ceramic.

The Dolmen d'Amenon was used as a burial place toward the end of the IVe millénaire av. J.-C. This approximate dating was established notably from the funerary material found inside it. The monument has been listed as a historic monument since 21 May 1976.

Dolmens of this kind in France are single-chamber megalithic tombs, with two or more upright stones supporting a large capstone. Most date to the Late Neolithic, about 4000 to 3000 BCE, and many were covered with earth or smaller stones to form a mound.

Dolmen d'Amenon is a dolmen in Saint-Germain-d'Arcé, France. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmen d'Amenon", shown in the original language.