Allée couverte du Bois du Rocher
The Allée couverte du Bois du Rocher (also called Allée couverte de la Ganterie) is a gallery tomb on a hill east of the hamlet of La Ganterie, between Saint-Hélen and La Vicomté-sur-Rance , next to the D 795 road from Dinan to Dol- de-Bretagne , in the far east of the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France .
description
The east-west oriented gallery grave is over 11.5 m long and about 1.2 m wide. It has two preserved capstones, one in situ (length 2.65 m, width 1.4 m; thickness 0.55 m). The monument was excavated in 1873 by M. de Boïshue, who found a polished ax made of diorite , quartz tools and ceramic shards there. There is a plan by Augustus Pitt Rivers (1828–1900) from 1878.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 50.2 " N , 1 ° 57 ′ 56.2" W.