FRANCE, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL 



dolmen is common in all parts of the French 

 megalithic area. It will suffice to mention the 

 magnificent example known as the Table des 

 Marchands at Locmariaquer. Perhaps the most 

 typical structure in France is the corridor-tomb 

 in which the chamber is indistinguishable from 

 the passage, and the whole forms a long rect- 

 angular area. This is the allee couverte in the 

 narrower sense. In the department of Oise occurs 

 a special type of this in which one of the end- 

 slabs has a hole pierced in its centre and is pre- 

 ceded by a small portico consisting of two uprights 

 supporting a roof-slab (Fig 10). A remarkable 



Fig. io. Alike couverte, called La 

 Pierre aux Fees, Oise, France. (Compte 

 rendu du Congres Prihistorique de 

 France. ) 



example in Brittany known as Les Pierres Plates 

 turns at a sharp angle in the middle, and is thus 

 elbow- shaped. 



In the north of France the allte is often merely 

 cut out in the surface of the ground and has no 



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