A Tola

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A Tola is a megalithic site, consisting of two funerary monuments of an imprecise type, located in the municipality of Belvedere-Campomoro, Corsica.

History: In 1893, Adrien de Mortillet described as the dolmen of Capo-di-Luogo a dolmen at the place called "la Tola". The building is already in poor condition, only the four orthostats remain and Mortillet points out, not without humor, that the cover table has disappeared. Around the dolmen, de Mortillet lists six fragments of slabs which it assumes to be the original table. In 1961 Roger Grosjean searched the building and a second of the same type, now called A Tola 1 and A Tola 2, whose funeral use he confirmed in view of the furniture collected, but he preferred to call them megalithic chests.

Description: Tola 2 is located about 150 m south-south-east of Tola 1. It has only two vertical pillars, south and east. In its present state, A Tola 1 opens to the south-west, a situation not common in Corsica but not unique (dolmen from Arghjola to Sartène) while A Tola 2 is significantly oriented east-south-east/west-north-west. The room of A Tola 1 is rectangular in shape, it measures about 2.50 m by 1 m. In the absence...