Kerhuen Dolmen
The Kerhuen dolmen (also known as Er Mané) are located in Belz , near the mouth of the Étel in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France . They are the remains of two passage dolmen ( French dolmen à couloir ). In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
description
Dolmen 1 is a low corridor dolmen with an oval chamber approximately 4.0 × 3.0 meters. The capstone lies on several of the eight bearing stones, but has slipped. The remains of the corridor with a preserved capstone are about 3.0 meters long. A road cut through the megalithic complex , which could have been longer.
Only 40 meters south of Dolmen 1 are the remains of the other chamber under a large oak. It was probably similar to the northern one, but has no capstones and the remains are just an oval of blocks with a few gang stones.
Less than a hundred years ago the remains of two other dolmens were still lying here, which have been completely destroyed.
Nearby is the Dolmen du Moulin des Oies .
- Dolmen 1 from Kerhuen - also Est
- Kerhuen Dolmen 2 - also Quest
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See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
Web links
- Description and pictures (English)
- Dolmen 1 of Kerhuen in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Dolmen 2 by Kerhuen in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ker is a Breton appellative that is often used as a prefix for place names. It means: "inhabited place".
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 52.7 " N , 3 ° 10 ′ 25.4" W.