Dolmen du Cruguellic
The Dolmen du Cruguellic (also called Moulin du Motte , Tumulus du Moulin du Motte and Tumulus de la Motte ) is located west of Ploemeur and east of the suburb Fort-Bloqué, near Lorient in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France .
The Dolmen du Cruguellic is a dolmen with side chambers , as it is e.g. B. to Pornic in the Loire-Atlantique department ( Dolmen de la Joselière , Dolmen du Pré d'Air , Tumulus von Mousseaux , Tumulus du Moulin de la Motte ). "Dolmen" is the generic term in France for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
This megalithic construction is characterized by an interior design in which the side chambers are symmetrically located on a corridor that leads to the head chamber. The number of side chambers usually varies between 1 and 4. In this case there are five.
The approximately 10.5 m long and 7.0 m wide dolmen was initially covered by a square cairn with a side length of about 20.0 m, framed by dry masonry . Two orthostats have a decoration.
The ornamentation of the dolmen can be seen as an intermediate stage between the art of the allées couvertes and the "dolmen à coudé" (angled dolmen).
To the north are the heavily disturbed dolmens of Saint-Adrien and Locmiquel-Méné. To the south lies the Tuchenn Pol dolmen .
See also
literature
- Charles-Tanguy Le Roux: Circonscription de Bretagne. In: Gallia Préhistoire. Vol. 20, No. 2, 1977, ISSN 0016-4127 , pp. 427-428. ( online )
Web links
- Description and pictures (French)
- Description and pictures (English)
Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 11.3 " N , 3 ° 29 ′ 7.5" W.