Kerguéran dolmen
The Neolithic Dolmen of Kerguéran (also called Dolmen of Kerguerhan or Er-Roc'h ) is located on the western outskirts of the hamlet of Saint Cado near Belz in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen has an oval to pear-shaped chamber about 3.0 × 2.5 m and a 1.4 m long remainder of the passage. From the original passage dolmen ( French dolmen à couloir ) eleven orthostats and two in situ capstones have been preserved (the latter cover the chamber and the adjacent part of the passage).
The dolmen has been classified as a monument historique since 1936 .
Nearby are the dolmen Mané Rhun (ruined), Moulin des Oies and Kerlutu .
- Kerguéran dolmen
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
- Pierre-Roland Giot: Prehistory in Brittany. Menhirs and dolmens. Editions d'Art Jos le Doaré, Chateaulin 1991, ISBN 2-85543-076-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ker is a Breton appellative that is often used as a prefix for place names. It means: "inhabited place".
Web links
- Dolmen à galerie in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and picture (English)
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 47.5 " N , 3 ° 11 ′ 13.1" W.