dolmen du Mas d'Agard
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
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Overview
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Le dolmen du Mas d'Agard est un dolmen situé à Fontvieille, dans le département français des Bouches-du-Rhône.
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The Dolmen du Mas d'Agard is a dolmen at Fontvieille, in the French département of Bouches-du-Rhône. It belongs to the megalithic monuments found in this part of southern France.
The surviving details of the monument’s construction are not described here. In general, a dolmen is a single-chamber megalithic tomb made with two or more upright stones supporting a large capstone. Many dolmens in France were once covered with earth or smaller stones to form a mound.
The Dolmen du Mas d'Agard is dated by typological estimate to 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. This is the period associated with most French dolmens and with the Late Neolithic. The monument was registered as a historic monument in 1995.
No alternative names, legends, archaeological finds or detailed history are given for this site. More broadly, France has some 4,500 dolmens across 60 departments and is described as the dolmen country of Europe. Some of Europe’s oldest megalithic monuments are in western France, including the Cairn of Barnenez, the Tumulus of Bougon and the Locmariaquer megaliths.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmen du Mas d'Agard", shown in the original language.
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dolmen du Mas d'Agard is a dolmen in Fontvieille, 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 du Mas d'Agard", shown in the original language.
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L'édifice est inscrit au titre des monuments historiques en 1995.
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Dolmen du Mas d'Agard”, translated from French. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
French dolmens
France is the dolmen country of Europe: the Dolmen de Bagneux at Saumur is the largest of some 4,500 dolmens scattered across 60 French departments, and one of the largest in Europe. A dolmen is a single-chamber megalithic tomb with two or more upright stones carrying a great 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.
Some of the oldest megalithic monuments in Europe are in western France. The Cairn of Barnenez in Finistère dates to the early Neolithic, around 4000 BCE, and with the Tumulus of Bougon and the Locmariaquer megaliths it is among the earliest megalithic monuments in Europe; it also has megalithic art. La Roche-aux-Fées near Essé in Ille-et-Vilaine is a covered corridor about 20 metres long, built of some 48 blocks, the heaviest around 45 tonnes, and divided into two chambers. It is thought to date from 3000 to 2500 BCE, and its entrance is aligned on sunrise at the winter solstice.
Folklore: the name of La Roche-aux-Fées, "the fairies' rock", comes from a legend that fairies placed the stones. Such stories are traditions about the monuments, not evidence of how they were built.
Because the Atlas draws on national inventories, its French records include many small and ruined dolmens, often reduced to a capstone resting on a few supports. Dates rest on the typology of the monument and, where a dolmen has been excavated, on radiocarbon dating of material from the chamber.
When visiting, look for the capstone and its supports, for the low rise of the old mound around the stones, and for the direction in which the entrance faces.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Dolmen, Wikipedia: Dolmen de Bagneux, Wikipedia: La Roche-aux-Fées, Wikipedia: Barnenez, Wikipedia: Carnac stones · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dated moments in the story
- 1995
L'édifice est inscrit au titre des monuments historiques en 1995.
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 4000–3000 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for dolmens in France; this site has not been dated itself. Most dolmens date from the Late Neolithic period (4000-3000 BCE).Source for this date
Where it stands
France
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 43°42′14″ N, 4°42′49″ EFor a GPS or map app: 43.70380, 4.71370
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Legends and claims
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- Tradition
No alternative names, legends, archaeological finds or detailed history are given for this site.
No alternative names, legends, archaeological finds or detailed history are given for this site. More broadly, France has some 4,500 dolmens across 60 departments and is described as the dolmen country of Europe. Some of Europe’s oldest megalithic monuments are in western France, including the Cairn of Barnenez, the Tumulus of Bougon and the Locmariaquer megaliths.
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