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Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Tumuli de Chausse
DatedEst. 5000–3000 BCE
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Overview
The tumuli de Chausse, also designated the tumulus de Mons or tumulus de la Chau, are three tumuli in the commune of Saint-Georges, in the département of Cantal, in Auvergne, France. The catalogue record gives a typological estimate of 5000 to 3000 BCE.
The area contains about a dozen tumuli in all, one of which covers the dolmen de Mons, forming a kind of aristocratic cemetery. The tumuli have been inscribed as a historical monument since 21 September 2010.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Tumuli de Chausse
The zone comprises about a dozen tumuli, including the one containing the dolmen de Mons, which together constitute a kind of aristocratic cemetery.
DescriptionSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Tumuli de ChausseCC BY-SA 4.0
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The zone comprises about a dozen tumuli, including the one containing the dolmen de Mons, which together constitute a kind of aristocratic cemetery. The dolmen de Mons lies close by.
ConservationSources for this section
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The tumuli have been inscribed as a historical monument since 21 September 2010.
ContextSources for this section
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- Wikipedia (French): Tumuli de ChausseCC BY-SA 4.0
Round barrows are found across the Low Countries and France, and many were raised in the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age. They are hemispherical mounds raised over a central burial, which may be an inhumation or a cremation placed in a vessel. Barrows were often reused, with later graves cut into the mound, sometimes long after the first burial.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Low Countries and French barrows
Round barrows are found across the Low Countries and France. Many were raised in the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age. The Bell Beaker phenomenon of the late third millennium BCE brought a new burial rite to western Europe: individual burials, often under a tumulus and with weapons, in contrast to the collective, weaponless burials of the earlier Neolithic. The Dutch hunebedden, the megalithic tombs of the north, belong to the earlier tradition and are described in their own article.
Round barrows are hemispherical mounds raised over a central burial, which may be an inhumation or a cremation placed in a vessel. Barrows were often reused: later graves were cut into the mound, sometimes long after the first burial, and many attract satellite burials. In France and Belgium, tumuli of the Hallstatt period belong to the early Iron Age, from about 800 BCE; from phase B of the Hallstatt sequence, tumulus burial becomes common and cremation predominates.
Dating relies on pottery and metalwork, and on radiocarbon dating where a mound has been dug. Many have been ploughed down, so the Atlas map reflects where mounds survived and were recorded as much as where they were built.
When visiting, look for the surrounding ditch or kerb, and for a later disturbance at the centre where a later grave or an old digging has cut the mound.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Tumulus, Wikipedia: Round barrow, Wikipedia: Bell Beaker culture, Wikipedia: Hallstatt culture, Wikipedia: Hunebed · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dated moments in the story
- 2010
Ils font l'objet d'une inscription aux monuments historiques depuis le 21 septembre 2010.
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Photographs
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 5000–3000 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic mounds in France; this site has not been dated itself. The Neolithic Saint-Michel de Carnac tumulus was built between 5,000 and 3,400 BC and the Bougon tumuli between 4,500 and 3,000 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
France
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 45°02′39″ N, 3°06′54″ EFor a GPS or map app: 45.04430, 3.11490
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Dolmen de Mons4000–3000 BCE- Dolmendolmen de Védernat4000–3000 BCE
Tombe du Capitaine4000–3000 BCE
Dolmen du Bois Grand4000–3000 BCE- DolmenBardon Dolmen4000–3000 BCE
Menhir christianisé de la Croix-Grosse2800–1800 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)pierre Plantade2800–1800 BCE
Dolmen de la Table au Loup4000–3000 BCE
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- 01Wikidata Q22936057wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Text, licence and sources
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