Allée couverte de Roquefort

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The covered driveway of Roquefort is located in Lugasson in the French department of la Gironde. In the Middle Ages, it was integrated into the defensive rampart that protected the Roquefort spur.

Description: It is a girondine gangway that stretches 14 m long and 1.40 m wide on average. The entire monument was built of limestone slabs with asteria. The tumulus is itself composed of limestone Dallettes and adorned with a trimming of slabs laid on singing. The driveway is bounded by seven orthostats on the south side and eleven on the north side, from 0.50 m to 1.70 m high. It is oriented on a north-west/south-east axis. Originally, it was covered with a series of cover tables, three of which remained in place, while the other slabs rested close to the building on the ground. The bedside slab has a series of seven and a half cups, about 5 cm in diameter, dug on its inner face.

Geography: Leperon de Roquefort is located at the extreme southern tip of the Bellefond limestone plateau, which forms the basement of several municipalities in Bazaam such as Lugasson, Entre-Deux-Mers. The limestone is called "asterics", the name of marine fossils...