Gallery grave of Luffang
The gallery grave of Luffang (also called Tal-er-Roch) is a relatively well-preserved gallery grave in the Morbihan department in Brittany , France . It is located in a forest near the hamlet of Luffang in the municipality of Crach . The megalithic complex is kinked and thus a kinked dolmen ( French dolmen à coudé ). It dates from around 3000 BC. And is known for a petroglyph , the so-called "octopus". The plate with the image is in the Museum of Prehistory in Carnac . It is generally accepted that the engraving is a representation of the Déesse mère .
Knickdolmen are known in only seven examples ( Dolmen du Cruguellic , Dolmen von Goërem , Dolmen du Fraissinel , Dolmen du Kernourz , Les Pierres-Plates , Dolmen des Vézinies ), most of them about 100 km between the mouths of the Loire (near Saint-Nazaire ) and the Blavet (near Lorient ) and around 3000 BC. Were created.
description
18 bearing stones have been preserved, while all of the ceiling slabs and many bearing stones have gone out. The access is in the south of the facility. The corridor with four preserved stones runs north and is about seven meters long. The rear part, the chamber, bends to the west at an angle of approximately 90 °. It has 14 preserved stones (including the end stone), some of which had rock carvings that are no longer recognizable today , and extends over a length of twelve meters. The width is less than a meter, the height hardly more than a meter. The corner plate with the anthropomorphic representation was probably a kind of guard at the entrance to the chamber. Its shape has become the symbol of the Carnac Museum.
The excavations of 1898 and 1937 led to the discovery of grave goods, including an ax cut in the Middle Neolithic, a flint blade and a copper spiral. 103 objects are in the Museum of Carnac. The facility was reused during the Copper or Bronze Age .
The gallery tomb is registered in France as a monument historique .
See also
literature
- Zacharie Le Rouzic : Les monuments mégalithiques du Morbihan. Causes de leur ruin et origine de leur restoration. In: Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française. Vol. 36, No. 5, 1939, ISSN 0037-9514 , pp. 234-251 .
- Marcel Baudouin: Les allées couvertes coudées. In: Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française. Vol. 14, No. 8, 1917, pp. 391-405 .
Web links
- Description French and pictures (last accessed on December 17, 2012)
- Description French Pictures and plan (last accessed on December 17, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gallery grave of Luffang in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '47 " N , 3 ° 1' 27" W.