Dolmen de Mané-Bihan

The Dolmen de Mané-Bihan (also called Allée couverte de Mané-Bihan) is located in the forest north of the hamlet L'Arbre Voyageur, about south of Locoal-Mendon near Lorient 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 dolmen, restored in 1924, is 17.5 m long and between 1.0 and 1.75 m wide. The cairn is still recognizable.

The finds consisted of ceramic fragments, as well as arrowheads and a dagger of flint .

The dolmen was classified as a monument historique and in 1921 .

The Dolmen Mané-er-Loh is about 100 m north . In between there is a small menhir .

See also

• Megalithic sites in Brittany

literature

• Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 21.1 ″  N , 3 ° 7 ′ 2.4 ″  W.