Kerviniou dolmen
The Kerviniou dolmen, placed under protection in 1992, is located about south of Guiscriff in the Arrondissement de Pontivy in the far west of the Morbihan department in Brittany in France . The complex dates from around 3000-2700 BC. BC and thus into the Neolithic . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The object known as the dolmen is the remainder of an approximately 10 m long allée couverte , of which the chamber has essentially been preserved. The outstanding element of the partially sunk chamber is the oversized capstone preserved in situ . From the corridor area and the periphery, apart from a standing stone, only chopped-off slab remains have survived.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : The Megaliths of Brittany. Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-87747-065-2 .
Web links
- Dolmen 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: 48 ° 1 '0.7 " N , 3 ° 37' 19.2" W.