Allée couverte by Saint André
The Allée couverte of Saint André (also called Allée couverte des Kervès) lies together with the row of stones, also known as the Alignement de la Forêt Saint-Aubin, near the hamlet of Saint André, north of Plédéliac near Lamballe in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France .
The gallery grave is more ruined. It was about 23.0 m long and 2.1 m wide and was the subject of a rescue excavation between 1984 and 1986 under the direction of O. Kayser. Like the neighboring menhir from Guihalon, it consists of gabbro panels from nearby Trégomar . The orthostats partially collapsed. In the northeast there is an end chamber with a paved floor, which is covered by the last capstone of the chamber. The three orthostats on the west side are connected by dry stone walls . One slab remained on the east side and the pit of a second slab was recognized. The main chamber is very disturbed under the weight of the ceiling tiles and a slight slope of the floor. Remnants of the Cairns have only been identified on the west side .
Row of stones
The row of stones consists of ten blocks, all of which have fallen over. The stones are irregular and chunky. A triangular block is 1.6 m high, 2.8 m wide and 0.5 m thick. Another plate is 2.0 m long and wide.
The finds consisted of small flint fragments and a small shard.
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 Dinan , Institut Culturel de Bretagne, 2004 ( ISBN 9782868220936 ), p. 31
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Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 55.3 " N , 2 ° 24 ′ 33.7" W.