Cairn de Îlot-de-Roc'h-Avel
The Cairn de Îlot-de-Roc'h-Avel (also called Cairn Coupé en Deux Par les Hautes Mers ) is located on the eponymous island Roc'h-Avel near Landéda off the coast of the Presqu'ile Ste-Marguerite in the Finistère department in of Brittany in France .
There are a few small tidal islands near Landéda that can be reached on foot at low tide . The Îlot Roc'h-Avel is accessible from Kerennoc beach . There are cairns , dolmen à couloir and other stone monuments on the islands .
There are two Cairns on Roc'h Avel. At the western tip of the island are the remains of the approximately 24.0 m long stone hill, half on the island and half in the sea. On the lake side, the preserved half of the dry stone can be seen tholos of a chamber. A few large stones are scattered along the coast that fit into another chamber.
A little inland there is a cairn with a remaining height of 1.5 m and a diameter of about 15.0 m, in which the remains of a chamber are visible.
The Cairns were the subject of detailed descriptions by E. Morel and were discovered in 1979 by Pierre-Roland Giot (1919–2002), Bernard Hallégouet and J.-L. Monnier, with the existence of two tombs in each of the cairns confirmed. Some pieces of flint , ceramic shards and bones were discovered.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 34.6 " N , 4 ° 36 ′ 46.9" W.