Castel-Ruffel

Drawing from 1901 by Paul du Chatellier

The Castel-Ruffel (also called Plin-Coat or Menez-an-Duc) is a megalithic complex located southeast of the municipality of Saint-Goazec in the Finistère department in Brittany in France .

It is a gallery grave ( French Allée couverte ) of the arc-boutée or à dalles inclinées type . In systems of the arc-boutée type , the orthostats lean against each other like a brace , cap stones are missing or lie on rows of vertically positioned orthostats on the side. They are only found in Brittany, especially in Finistère.

description

Castel-Ruffel is north-south oriented. It consists of large, thin quartzite plates. The system has a length of about 12.0 m. Some side panels are missing. This covered walkway is at the base of a prehistoric enclosure made up of concentric elliptical rings that are 80 and 100 meters long.

During archaeological excavations, Maurice Halna du Fretay (1835–1901) discovered 15 arrowheads and one slate tip .

Comparable finds

There are comparable monuments in Cornouaille , in the south of the Monts d'Arrée , in the Montagnes Noires and in the Landes de Lanvaux .

Similar plants are the Allée couverte Ty Corriganet by Coat Menez Guen near Melgven , Kerantiec in Riec-sur-Belon, the Loge-au-Loup near Trédion or the Ti ar C'horriged called by Plobannalec-Lesconil .

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 .

Web links

Commons : Allée couverte de Castel-Ruffel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Allée couverte à dalles inclinées de Castel-Ruffel in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Individual evidence

↑ Aubrey Burl: Guide des Dolmens et Menhirs Bretons. Le Megalithisme en Bretagne. Errance, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-903442-42-8 , p. 118 (Translation from: Megalithic Brittany. A guide to over 350 ancient sites and monuments. Thames and Hudson, London 1985, ISBN 0-500-27460-6 ) .
↑ See also Paul du Chàtellier: Exploration des tumulus des Montagnes Noires (Finistère). In: Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. 1901, pp. 185–203, here p. 191 .

48.144965 -3.72835Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 41.87 " N , 3 ° 43 ′ 42.06" W.

[1] Aubrey Burl: Guide des Dolmens et Menhirs Bretons. Le Megalithisme en Bretagne. Errance, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-903442-42-8 , p. 118 (Translation from: Megalithic Brittany. A guide to over 350 ancient sites and monuments. Thames and Hudson, London 1985, ISBN 0-500-27460-6 ) .

[chat1901-2] See also Paul du Chàtellier: Exploration des tumulus des Montagnes Noires (Finistère). In: Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. 1901, pp. 185–203, here p. 191 .