Pierre couverte de la Pagerie

The Pierre couverte de la Pagerie is a dolmen at Gennes, in the French department of Maine-et-Loire. It is a monumental example of the angevin type with a portique, and it was classified as a historic monument in 1980.

The dolmen measures 10,5 m long and 5 m wide inside. Its chamber is bounded by a single chevet slab, two orthostats on the south side and one on the north. Two covering tables sit above it, one of them slanting down to the ground, while the portique still has its square covering table, tilted to the north. The entrance is framed by two slabs, and all the slabs are made of sandstone.

Excavations carried out in 1897 brought to light a skeleton inside the chamber without any accompanying objects. This burial may have taken place well after the monument was built, although three flint flakes kept at the musée d'Angers are associated with the site. One of the entrance pillars also bears a natural marking resembling the head of a bovine, together with a carved eye.

Dolmens of this kind in France generally belong to the Late Neolithic, about 4000 to 3000 BCE, although the dating given for the Pierre couverte de la Pagerie is a typological estimate for 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. France holds some 4,500 dolmens spread across 60 departments, many of which were once covered by earth or smaller stones to form a mound.

Pierre couverte de la Pagerie is a dolmen in Gennes-Val de Loire, France. Wikidata describes it as: dolmen in Gennes, France. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Pierre couverte de la Pagerie", shown in the original language.