Dolmen of the tray
The Dolmen des Tablettes (also called Tablettes de Cournon) is a Breton megalithic complex of the Angevin type (also known as the Loire type), which otherwise occurs mainly in Anjou and there in the Maine-et-Loire department . It is located in a pine forest in the commune of Cournon , south of La Gacilly in the Morbihan department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
Around 3000 BC The dolmen, which was built in BC, is 5.0 m long and 2.7 m wide. 1.5 m high bearing stones support two large, broken, approximately 0.7 m thick cover plates made of pudding stone (French: poudingue), which were transported from a distance of about two kilometers. The chamber is separated by partition walls and is now supported by concrete pillars because of the risk of collapse.
Nearby there is a three meter high menhir and two tumuli . These four archaeological sights lie on a west-east axis.
See also
literature
- Pierre-Roland Giot, Jacques Briard : Protohistoire de la Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1979, ISBN 2-85882-089-9 , ( Université ).
- Jacques Briard: Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
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- ↑ The Dolmen angevin is an allée couverte of the Loire type with a (retracted) trilith portal as an entrance
- ↑ "Pudding stones are ancient Tertiary conglomerates with heavily unrolled flint and sandy, quartzitic or phosphorous binders with or without glauconite grains. Key fossils are unknown from them, so the age is not known. Comparable with English pudding stones, they are placed in the Paleocene, possibly they are but younger. see http://www.budstone.de/geschiebe/geschiebe.htm#label_32 "
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Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 27 " N , 2 ° 7 ′ 27" W.