Allée couverte by La Roche Camio
The Allée couverte of La Roche Camio (also called Allée couverte of La Roche Cadio or Grotte aux Fées ) is a megalithic complex from the Neolithic . It is located in Plédran , east of Le Créac'h in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France and has been a listed monument since 1964 . The Allée couverte differs from normal gallery graves in the lateral position of its access.
The approximately 21.0 m long gallery with an antenna-like , wide and deep antechamber and side access, of which two stones have been preserved, consists of 28 bearing stones and six preserved (out of 10) cap stones. Staggered stones lie in and next to the chamber. The bearing stones have an average height of 1.0 m and are 1.2 m wide. Remnants of the hill can still be seen. Were found arrowheads and pottery shards.
The Allée couverte du Petit-Chêne is about 550 m to the east .
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
- Loïc Langouët: Les mégalithes de l'arrondissement de Saint-Brieuc. Institut Culturel de Bretagne et al., Rennes 2005, ISBN 2-86822-098-3 , p. 34.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Allée couverte dite La Roche Cadio in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 2 ° 44 ′ 17.3 ″ W.