Dolmen with side chambers

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Scheme Mané Keriaval (Brittany) Orange = gear; Yellow = chamber; Gray = stones; Green = lawn; Black / bold = existing cap stones; --- = added contour
Dolmen (à cabinets latéraux) from Locqueltas

The Dolmen with side chambers ( French Dolmen à cabinets latéraux or Dolmen transepté , regional and Pierres pouquelées or Croix de lorraine dolmen called) are a form of megalithic installations in France , especially in Brittany and in the British Isles , there particularly in Ireland found is. They are not to be confused with secondary chambers in passage graves of the TBK in Denmark.

France

In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ). For France, the variants "with" ( Mané Keriaval , Kluder-Yer ) or "without head niche" ( Mané Groh , Locqueltas ) are all in the Morbihan) or the Dolmen de la Joselière near Pornic , with an inclined head niche; characterizing the Allée couverte by Lobo and Rondossec with a side chamber on one side. Mané Bras is a dolmen with a narrow passage and a greatly expanded, cross-shaped chamber area with a shortened head niche. According to Pierre-Roland Giot (1919–2002), the French systems with a long corridor and side chambers on both sides (usually two each) are the second generation of dolmens, which consist of the galleries with a single (undifferentiated) round or angular chamber (both Forms in Barnenez , angular in Gavrinis and Kercado ) and from the galleries with tropezoid chambers ( megalithic systems from Liscuis , Mané Rutual ). There are also systems (Allée couverte von Lobo) with only one side chamber. The chambers are partially separated from the corridor area by threshold stones ( Larcuste ). The only cross-shaped dolmen with side chambers (French: Dolmen transepté (en forme de croix) is the Dolmen de la Planche à Puare on the Île d'Yeu in the Vendée department . The dolmen were once located under mounds of earth or stone.

British Islands

The British-Irish systems (where cross-shaped chambers form a separate sub-form of the passage tombs ) always have a head niche ( Loughcrew , West Kennet Long Barrow ).

Ireland

Loughcrew is the largest complex of side-chamber dolmens in Ireland . They lie in groups in the northwest of County Meath on three knolls of the Slieve na Calliagh ridge. Some megaliths are engraved. In contrast to the open segmentation of the Stalled Cairns in Scotland , the side chambers are completely separated from the corridor area by threshold stones. Some of them are still under white limestone cairns, but many, especially the smaller ones, have been stripped of their cairns.

Great Britain

Passage tombs under long hills are known as Cotswold Severn tombs in Great Britain , but are generally rare. The largest of these facilities is the long bed at West Kennet Long Barrow near Avebury . Other examples are Stoney Littleton in Somerset or La Hougue Bie in the Channel Islands .

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