Locqueltas dolmen

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Scheme dolmen with side chambers - here Mané Keriaval with four side chambers and head niche - orange = chamber or passage; Yellow = niche / side chamber; Gray = stones; Green = lawn; Black = existing and supplemented contour

The Locqueltas dolmen is located in Locoal-Mendon , west of Locqueltas and Auray 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 well-preserved dolmen is 6.3 meters long; 3.7 meters of this is in the long corridor. The dolmen has a side chamber on each side of the main rectangular chamber, approximately 2.6 m long and 2.2 m wide. In addition to 23 supporting stones from the chamber and corridor, two ceiling panels, one above the left side niche and one above the corridor, have been preserved.

Nearby is the Mané-er-Loh dolmen .

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Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 16 "  N , 3 ° 6 ′ 48.8"  W.