Mané-Kervilor dolmen

The three dolmens of Mané-Kervilor (also called dolmen of Mané-Bras ) are dolmens in the remains of a cairn in a forest north of the hamlet of Kermarquer and about 250 meters southwest of the hamlet of Kervilor, north of La Trinité-sur-Mer in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).

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In the originally oval stone mound from the Neolithic Age , three gallery pillars ( Allée couverte or Dolmen à couloir ) can be seen.

Dolmen 1 in the west no longer has its cover plates. The corridor, about six meters long, leads into an oval chamber measuring about four by three meters.
Dolmen 2 in the middle still has three cap stones, two above the corridor, the third forms part of the ceiling of the chamber.
The third dolmen, in the east, still has two cap stones, one above the four-meter long corridor, the other above the chamber. The chamber measures about three by three meters.

The dolmens were classified as a monument historique in 1927 . The Quéric La Lande , Mané Rohr (Kerdro-Vihan), Kermarquer and the Allée couverte Mané-Roullarde are up to a kilometer away .

Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
Pierre-Roland Giot: Prehistory in Brittany. Menhirs and dolmens. Editions d'Art Jos le Doaré, Chateaulin 1991, ISBN 2-85543-076-3 .

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