dolmens du Mont Aubert
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Les dolmens de Peyrelevade ou dolmens de Peyrelebade, appelés aussi dolmens de Montaubert ou dolmens de Mont Aubert, sont un groupe de cinq dolmens dont seuls quatre subsistent, situés à Salles-la-Source, dans le département français de l'Aveyron.
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The Dolmens de Peyrelevade are a group of five dolmens at Salles-la-Source in the Aveyron department of France. Four of the five survive. They are also known as the dolmens de Peyrelebade, the dolmens de Montaubert, and the dolmens de Mont Aubert.
The surviving monuments are identified as dolmens n°1, n°2, and n°3. Dolmen n°1 was listed as a historic monument in 1993. The coordinates given for dolmen n°2 are 44° 27′ 20″ N, 2° 32′ 11″ E, while those for dolmen n°3 are 44° 27′ 16″ N, 2° 32′ 17″ E.
The group is also known by the names Dolmens de Peyrelevade, Dolmens de Peyrelebade, Dolmens de Montaubert, and Dolmens de Mont Aubert. The available information does not state when the surviving dolmens were built or what they originally contained.
Research on the site includes Georges Bories’s studies of Salles-la-Source and the dolmens of Peyrelevade and Peyrelebade, published in regional scientific reports and in La France des dolmens et des sépultures collectives (4500 - 2000 avant J.-C.). More generally, dolmens in France are collective burial monuments, a category represented in that publication’s date range of 4500 - 2000 avant J.-C.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmens de Peyrelevade", shown in the original language.
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dolmens du Mont Aubert is a megalithic complex in Salles-la-Source, France. Wikidata describes it as: dolmens in Salles-la-Source, France. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Dolmens de Peyrelevade", shown in the original language.
Dolmen n°1Sources for this section
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Le dolmen n°1 est inscrit au titre des monuments historiques en 1993.
Dolmen n°2Sources for this section
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44° 27′ 20″ N, 2° 32′ 11″ E
Dolmen n°3Sources for this section
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44° 27′ 16″ N, 2° 32′ 17″ E
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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 “Dolmens de Peyrelevade”, 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
Carnac and the Breton alignments
The Carnac stones, near the south coast of Brittany, are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites, with alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs. More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local granite and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany, and form the largest such collection in the world. The stones were erected at some stage in the Neolithic, probably around 3300 BCE, though some may date from as early as 4500 BCE. Most lie in the municipality of Carnac, with some to the east in La Trinité-sur-Mer, and others at Locmariaquer, Arzon and on islands in the Gulf of Morbihan.
There are three major groups of rows, called Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan. They may once have formed a single group, split up as stones were taken for other purposes. Together they trace a contour line about 20 metres above sea level, and the stones are arranged in rows that stretch across four kilometres.
Three exceptionally large burial mounds of the mid-fifth millennium BCE, the "Carnacéen tumuli" of Saint-Michel, Tumiac and Mané-er-Hroëk, each hold a megalithic chamber with a single individual and numerous large polished stone axes. On the island of Gavrinis a passage tomb built around 4200 to 4000 BCE, one of the world's oldest surviving buildings, has stones covered in megalithic art.
Folklore: a Christian legend held that the stones were pagan soldiers pursuing Pope Cornelius, whom he turned to stone. Modern beliefs associate the rows with Roman and Christian occupation, although the stones date from 4500 to 3300 BCE.
Dating comes from radiocarbon dates on the tombs and from the stratigraphy at the foot of the stones.
When visiting, walk the alignments at Ménec and Kermario, and notice the stones growing taller towards one end.
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Dated moments in the story
- 1993
Le dolmen n°1 est inscrit au titre des monuments historiques en 1993.
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Where it stands
France
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 44°27′15″ N, 2°32′17″ EFor a GPS or map app: 44.45420, 2.53810
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Dolmendolmen du Mont Aubert 24000–3000 BCE
- Dolmendolmen du Mont Aubert 34000–3000 BCE
dolmen du Mont Aubert 14000–3000 BCE
dolmen of Saint-Antonin4000–3000 BCE
Zona arqueològica del dolmen III dels Vézinies4000–3000 BCE- Dolmendolmen de la Vitarelle 44000–3000 BCE
Dolmen du Genevrier4000–3000 BCE
Zona arqueològica del dolmen de la Vitarelle III4000–3000 BCE
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- dolmen du Mont Aubert 20.2 km NW
- dolmen du Mont Aubert 30.3 km NW
- dolmen du Mont Aubert 10.3 km NW
- dolmen of Saint-Antonin2.3 km N
- Zona arqueològica del dolmen III dels Vézinies2.3 km SW
- dolmen de la Vitarelle 43.2 km NE
- Dolmen du Genevrier3.3 km W
- Zona arqueològica del dolmen de la Vitarelle III3.4 km NE
- dolmen de la Vitarelle 23.5 km NE
- dolmen de Bennac 13.6 km S
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