Kerno dolmen
The Dolmen of Kerno is located in the middle of the Île-aux-Moines ( German "Island of the Monks" - Breton Izenah) in the Gulf of Morbihan in the Morbihan department , in Brittany in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The north-west-south-east oriented "Dolmen à couloir" by Kerno consists of four bearing stones, a ceiling slab placed in situ but broken off and three low stones on the access side. The small, roughly square megalithic complex measures around 1.2 × 1.3 m inside and is 0.6 m high.
The Île-aux-Moines has been inhabited at least since the Neolithic . Evidence for this are four dolmens (Kerno, Perhap and the dolmen of Pen-Nioul at the Pointe de Nioul); a menhir (near Brouel) and a stone circle (Cromlech).
The menhir of Kerno stands about 500 m south of the Rue du Dolmen .
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ° 34'57 " N , 2 ° 51'19.5" W.