Champ des Tombes

Champ des Tombes

Champ des Tombes ( German  "field of graves" , also called Outre Tombes , Tombes de Vaujour or Tombes de Saint-Broladre ) is a stone circle remnant or half a cromlech or part of a destroyed megalithic complex east of the hamlet of La Riviére, southwest of Saint- Broladre near Dol-de-Bretagne in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France .

Classified as a Monument historique in 1966, the megalithic horseshoe is located in a place called Vaujour. It consists of six stones that form a semicircle about 7.0 meters in diameter.

Although the monument was classified as a Historic Monument in 1966, the expansion of the neighboring quarry resulted in illegal demolition in 1977 and rebuilding elsewhere in 1998. Using a plan from the investigation carried out by Jean L'Helgouach (1933–2000) and a photograph from 1962, the locals had the facility rebuilt a few hundred meters from its original position.

In 1883, P. Bézier erroneously mentions the monument in the neighboring municipality of Baguer-Pican in his inventory of megalithic monuments in the Ille-et-Vilaine department . Six stones formed a semicircle and two more stones completed the whole. Of the eight stones that were still there at the beginning of the 20th century, one was crushed and another disappeared.

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Web links

Commons : Champ des Tombes (Saint-Broladre)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hemicycle mégalithique dit Les Tombes in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
• Description and pictures (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 26.6 "  N , 1 ° 41 ′ 13.8"  W.