Allée couverte in the Estuaire de la Quillimadec

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Scheme gallery grave - ( French Allée couverte )

The approximately 15 m long, algae-covered Allée couverte in the Estuaire de la Quillimadec is located in the Bay of Treissény (opposite Le Curnic), west of Guissény in the Finistère department in Brittany in France . It is only accessible at low tide. None of the capstones of the gallery grave is still in situ .

Sea level rise

Sea level rise over the past 24,000 years. Since the construction of the complex around 4000 BC BC it only rose by about five meters

Some Allées couvertes, such as the Allée couverte in the Estuaire de la Quillimadec, are flooded today at high tide . They are evidence of the rise in sea levels since the Neolithic , when the plants were not built so close to the sea . A better preserved example is the Allée couverte by Kernic , the Cairn de Îlot-de-Roc'h-Avel and the Menhir by Léhan .

See also

literature

  • Jacques Briard (text), Nicolas Fediaevsky (photos): Mégalithes de Bretagne. New edition Édition Ouest-France, Rennes 1992, ISBN 2-7373-1167-5 .
  • Pierre-Roland Giot: Une station du neolithique primaire Armoricain - Le Curnic en Guissény (Finistère). In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France, 1960, Volume 57, No. 1-2, pp. 38-50.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 28 "  N , 4 ° 24 ′ 55.4"  W.