Courtil des Fées
The Dolmen del Courtil des Fées ( German "Garden of the Fairies" - also called Allée couverte de Chateau de Beaumont) is a disturbed Allée couverte on a hill in the forest southeast of Saint-Laurent-sur-Oust near Vannes in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The 25 supporting stones obtained form an approximately 1.0 m narrow, elongated chamber of approximately 9.0 m length with a straight and an apse-shaped end. At least three bearing stones are missing. None of the approximately 12 capstones has survived. The west-east-oriented megalithic complex excavated between 1986 and 1992 with eccentric, lateral access ( French Sepultre à entree laterale ) forms a special form of the Allée couverte (such as Four Sarrazin , Grand Village and Tréal ) and was, like Crec ' h Quillé covered by a hill at Saint-Quay-Perros . The bones of three people were found.
About 75 meters to the northwest is the 1.5 m high "Menhir de Beaumont" with small bowls .
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
- Jean-Yves Tinevez, Charles-Albert Baud, Gilles Grévin, René Lagier, Pierre-Roland Giot, Herve Morzadec: La sépulture mégalithique à entrée latérale de Beaumont à Saint-Laurent-sur-Oust (Morbihan): Etudes anthropologique et pétrographique. Données complémentaires In: Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest 1990 7 pp. 41–56
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Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 2 ° 18 ′ 42.2 ″ W.