Kerran dolmen
The Dolmen of Kerran (also called Dolmens de Roh-Vras , not to be confused with the Dolmen d'Er-Roch-Vras) are located east of the intersection of the D28 with the D781, south of Crac'h near Saint-Philibert in the Morbihan department in of Brittany in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
description
The dolmens are made of granite and were once covered by a now eroded hill. They come from the middle Neolithic (around 4000–3500 BC). These are the remains of two "dolmen à couloir" (with a low corridor), of which the south dolmen is in a much better condition than the other. The third dolmen was acquired by the Piketty family in 1896, despite objections from Zacharie Le Rouzic (1864-1939), and moved to the Meudon cemetery in Île-de-France to be used as a tomb.
- Kerran dolmen
Dolmen North
Dolmen North
Ideally gang dolmen
Dolmen south
Dolmen south
The western chamber of the north dolmen has a sloping capstone of about 3.0 × 3.0 m on a chamber that was possibly separated from the eastern by an inner stone. The eastern chamber has a capstone of about 3.0 × 2.0 m and an end stone, with an entrance in the south.
The southern dolmen has a large capstone lying horizontally on several supporting stones. He lacks the stones at both ends.
The dolmens were designated as a monument historique in 1927 .
Nearby are the dolmens of Kervehennec and the dolmens of Kercadoret and that of Kermané .
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
Web links
- Description and pictures (English)
- Deux dolmens à galerie de Kerhan dits Roh-Vras (Grande-Roche) in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Video
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ker is a Breton appellative that is often used as a prefix for place names. It means: "inhabited place".
Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 53.9 " N , 2 ° 59 ′ 16.1" W.