Croix de Sandun
The Dolmen Croix von Sandun ( French Le dolmen de Sandun , also: Dolmen de La Croix de Sandun) is located on a hill in Sandun, east of Guerande , on the western edge of the largest marshland and lagoon landscape in France La Brière in the Loire-Atlantique department . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The Sandun Dolmen is an isolated, heavily damaged gallery grave of which only a few stones have survived. It was excavated by Henri Quilgars in 1896. It describes a low hill crowned by seven stones, in a rectangle about 7.5 m long and 1.5 m wide. The tallest stone measures only about one meter. The entrance was in the east. The facility has been classified as a historical monument since 1935 .
tourism
The Route Bleue ( German "Blue Route" ) runs through Saint-Nazaire and Sandun , along which eleven important prehistoric megalithic monuments are located. Below this is the Dissignac tumulus (No. 1) near the city. Among the dolmens of the Croix de Sandun (3), the Kerbourg (4), the du Riholo (5), that of the Rossignols (6), the tumulus of Mousseaux west of Pornic (9), the la Joselière (10) and the du Pré d'Aire (11), the numbers 9-11 on the Pays de Rets are particularly well known. There are also three menhirs: the menhir from Bissin (No. 2), the 2.1 m high Pierre de Couche (7) and the approximately 2.7 m high menhir de la Pierre Attelée (8), which has been a historical monument since 1992 is classified.
literature
- J. L'Helgouach & H. Poulain: Le cairn des Mousseaux à Pornic et les tombes mégalithiques transeptées de l'estuaire de la Loire . Association pour la diffusion des recherches archéologiques dans l'Ouest de la France, Rennes 1984.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 20 ′ 54.2 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 23.3" W.