Kerlagad dolmen

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The ideal "dolmen with a walk" ( French dolmen à couloir ) in the cairn (hill)
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The remains of the two dolmens of Kerlagad (also called dolmen of Mané-Roc'h / Mane-Roch ) are located on a small hill in the forest, southwest of Kerlagad, east of the hamlet of Kerguéarec, near Carnac 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 ).

Two gangway dolmen ( French dolmen a couloir ) are very close and parallel in the same cairn . The better preserved eastern dolmen has a 9.0 m long corridor. The approximately 3.0 m measuring chamber is almost round and consists of only three large supporting stones and a wall made of dry masonry . A stone lies on the chamber floor.

The dolmens were searched by Zacharie Le Rouzic (1864–1939) in the 19th century and during the restoration in 1927 . Among other things, he found many pearls made from variscite (also called variscite).

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  1. ↑ The dolmens of Tallec near Fontainebleau near Lorient in the Morbihan department also bear the same name .
  2. ↑ Ker is a Breton appellative that is often used as a prefix for place names. It means: "inhabited place".

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Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '53.6 "  N , 3 ° 2' 28.9"  W.