Goërem dolmen
The Goërem Dolmen is a dolmen on a peninsula south of Port-Louis and the Petite mer de Gâvres in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France . It is located in the rue du tumulus of the municipality of Gâvres in the west of the elongated "presqu'île de Gâvres" (peninsula). In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen is one of only seven known articulated dolmen in Brittany, all of which are about 100 km in length between the mouths of the Loire (near Saint-Nazaire ) and the Blavet (near Lorient ) and were built around 3000 BC. Were created.
The elbow dolmen ( French dolmen à coudé ), discovered in 1963 , still has a stone mound of around 20 m × 10 m and up to three meters high. The system has two aisle elements with a square cross-section and is extraordinarily long at around nine meters in front of the bend and 17 m behind it. It is separated into four compartments in the longer area by side posts. Motifs, as they are known from Les Pierres-Plates , adorn the rear corridor, which is radiocarbon dating to about 2480 BC. Dated plant.
As early as 1888, an elegant wedge-shaped polished stone ax made of serpentine, a dark green, hard, black stippled stone was found. A lost dolmen stood on the Île aux Souris (Mouse Island), which was operated as a quarry until 1924.
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literature
- Jean L'Helgouach: Le monument mégalithique du Goërem à Gâvres (Morbihan). In: Gallia préhistoire. Vol. 13, No. 2, 1970, ISSN 0016-4127 , pp. 217-261 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 50.6 " N , 3 ° 21 ′ 15.4" W.