The dolmen de Séchebec, a megalithic monument located in Cognac, France, may date to the Peu-richardian period (4500-3500 BC). It was reused during the Campaniforme period. A. Cousset recorded that the monument served as a boundary marker.
The site was classified as a historical monument in 1930. It was excavated in 1958 by Claude Burnez and later restored by the city of Cognac, though the restoration did not respect the monument’s original appearance or architecture.
The chamber of the dolmen measures 2.40 m by 4.80 m, with an original height under the slab of approximately 1.60 m as evidenced by two pillars found in place. The chamber was delimited by five orthostates resting in a foundation trench. No trace of a tumulus was discovered. The bones of about ten adults and at least four children were found inside the chamber, along with sixty-two flint tools, two bone pins, a fragment of a third, and a fragment of a grinding stone.
Two bi-conically perforated limestone pearls, a piece of ochre, a hundred dentals, and shells (nucella lapillus) were also found. The archaeological materials are now kept at the museum of art and history of Cognac.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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