Lestriguiou dolmen
The Lestriguiou dolmen is an approximately 5000 year old gallery grave with side access ( French sépulture mégalithique à l'entrée latérale ), which is best known for its ceramic finds. In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
The dolmen of Lestriguiou is located in a small forest north of the D 785 between Penmarc'h and Plomeur in Cornouaille , in the Finistère department in Brittany in France . It is an allée couverte about 12.0 m long with two capstones preserved in situ at the northern end. His chamber was gradually extended for an unexplained reason.
Although there are connections between facilities with side access and the ceramics in the T-shaped dolmen of Kerugou ( dolmen with side chambers , no head niche) in Northern Brittany, the shapes are different. Quessoy Brécé ceramics dominate, with pots with a round or flat bottom. Other equipment includes pendants, polished axes , raw or retouched blades and daggers . They are pretty close to the Eteauville-style or Île Briand shapes found from the Loire Valley to the north coast and in the northwest of the Morbihan department . Galleries with side access are rare in France.
Seven bowls, 5.5 to 9.0 cm in diameter, are engraved on the rear capstone.
See also
literature
- Jean L'Helgouach: L'Apport des Recherches Récentes à la Conaissance des Monuments Mégalithiques de Bretagne. In: Problems of megalithic grave research. Lectures on the 100th birthday of Vera Leisner (= Madrid Research. 16). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1990, ISBN 3-11-011966-8 , pp. 83–111, here pp. 103–104.
- Jacques Briard : The Megaliths of Brittany. Gisserot, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-87747-065-2 (German edition, translated from the French by Arnold Jacobshagen).
Web links
- Dolmen de Lestrigniou in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and pictures (French)
- Description and picture (English)
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 30.9 " N , 4 ° 18 ′ 39.2" W.