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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.

Dolmens de Peyrelevade

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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.