Allée couverte by Ribl


Allée couverte by Ribl		Allée couverte by Ribl

The deepened Allée couverte of Ribl (also called Allée couverte of Pont-ar-Bleiz ) is located in the dunes north of Lampaul-Ploudalmézeau , near Ploudalmézeau in the Finistère department in Brittany in France .

The gallery grave , which opens to the southeast and whose name can be traced back to an ancient river, dates from around 3000 BC. The system consisted of two parallel rows of bearing stones, about 10.5 m long, which carried the ceiling slabs.

There are three structural parts:

a small antechamber 1.25 m long, which bears the only surviving ceiling plate on which a bowl can be seen. The plate rests on four supporting stones, one of which is twisted towards the corridor.
a corridor of 7.5 m with a variable width of 1.0 to 1.50 m, the wall stones of which are often missing or inclined inwards.
a rectangular main chamber of 1.25 × 1.5 m, the boundary stones of which rest 1.4 m deep on a horizontal floor plate.

There is an engraving of a small bowl 8.5 cm in diameter and 2.5 cm deep on the ceiling plate .

The finds made during the excavations of 1923 and 1924 suggest that the investment in the Bronze Age nachgenutzt was. The Allée couverte von Ribl has been classified as a Monument historique since 1940 .

literature

Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
Pierre-Roland Giot: Prehistory of Brittany. Menhirs and dolmens . Édition d'Art Jos Le Doaré, Châteaulin 1996, ISBN 2-85543-103-4 .