Dolmen du Kernourz
The Dolmen du Kernourz (also called Tumulus du Rocher or Allée couverte du Rocher ) near Bono is an elbow or kinked dolmen ( French dolmen à coudé ) in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
Knickdolmen are known in only seven copies ( Dolmen von Goërem ), all of which are about 100 km in length between the mouths of the Loire (near Saint-Nazaire ) and the Blavet (near Lorient ) and around 3000 BC. Were created.
description
The dolmen still has its tumulus, 20 to 30 m in diameter and up to four meters high. The system has two corridor elements with a square cross-section and is about eight meters long in front of the bend about 12.0 behind it. Eight ceiling tiles and 17 bearing stones with intermediate masonry form the front corridor. Five larger cap stones and about 18 bearing stones form the rear corridor, which widens towards the end. The corner is formed by two bearing stones and a large heart-shaped ceiling plate. Motifs, as they are known from Les Pierres-Plates , adorn five stones in the back aisle. Five bearing stones of the rear chamber are engraved .
In the 8th century BC At the beginning of the Iron Age , half a dozen graves with diameters of 10 to 16 m and mounds of 0.50 to 1.10 m in height were dug around the tumulus, which contained cadavers in rectangular pits .
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : The Megaliths of Brittany. Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, Paris 2000 ISBN 2-87747-065-2
Web links
- Brief description (French) and pictures
- photos
- Description (French) plan and pictures
- Description and sketches
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ker is a Breton appellative that is often used as a prefix for place names. It means: "inhabited place".
Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '4.4 " N , 2 ° 57' 25.4" W.