pierre Levée

France is described as the dolmen country of Europe, with about 4,500 dolmens spread across 60 French departments. The Dolmen de Bagneux at Saumur is the largest in France and one of the largest in Europe. A dolmen is a single-chamber megalithic tomb made from two or more upright stones supporting a large capstone. Most belong to the Late Neolithic, around 4000 to 3000 BCE, and many were originally covered with earth or smaller stones to form a mound.

Pierre Levée, also known as the dolmen of the Haute-Barde, is a megalithic monument in Beaumont-Louestault in the Indre-et-Loire department of France. It stands in the grounds of the Château de la Haute-Barde, west of the commune and near its boundary with Neuvy-le-Roi. Its estimated date, from typological comparison, is between 4000 BCE and 3000 BCE.

The monument has a rectangular form built from two supports and a back wall, with a further upright standing separately in front of the entrance. Its capstone, measuring 2.20 by 1.70 metres, has partly fallen inward into the chamber. The structure is made from lacustrine limestone and was listed as a historic monument in the 1889 list.

Some of the oldest megalithic monuments in Europe are found in western France. The Cairn of Barnenez in Finistère dates to the early Neolithic, around 4000 BCE, and together with the Tumulus de Bougon and the Locmariaquer megaliths, it belongs to the earliest groups of megalithic monuments in Europe. Barnenez also includes megalithic art. Another example is the Roche-aux-Fées near Essé in Ille-et-Vilaine, a covered corridor about 20 metres long, built from around 48 blocks, the heaviest weighing roughly 45 tonnes, and divided into two chambers.

pierre Levée is a dolmen in Beaumont-la-Ronce, 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 Levée (Beaumont-Louestault)", shown in the original language.