dolmens of Cazarils

Tomb no 1 was discovered in 1952 and excavated by the Centre Archéologique des Chênes Verts. Its interior space is bounded by orthostats and its outer contour by a drystone wall, the space between being filled with rock blocks in no order. One of the orthostats is a small rectangular statue-menhir (0,71 m high, 0,33 m wide and 0,15 m thick), placed at the back of the chamber, facing the entrance, probably, according to Jean Arnal, to frighten off possible desecrators. The original is kept by the Société Archéologique de Montpellier, and a cement copy is visible on the site. The face, described as an "owl head", is formed of parallel engraved lines, with the eyes underlined by marks like tattoos. The statue is decorated with a necklace bearing a motif that could be a bead.

Tomb no 2 was discovered in the 1950s. It is larger than tomb no 1 and slightly different in construction: small drystone walls are set between the orthostats of the inner circuit, and the outer circuit is again a drystone wall enclosing internal rubble.

In tomb no 1 the archaeological material comprises pottery sherds, a few items of personal ornament and human bones, dated to the Copper Age, the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. The excavation of tomb no 2 by the Centre Archéologique des Chênes Verts yielded only a few pottery sherds and fragments of human bone.