Pen-Nioul dolmen
The two dolmens of Pen-Nioul (also called Penn Nioul or Dolmen of Nioul) are located near the Pointe de Nioul, in the extreme south of the Île-aux-Moines 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 Gangdolmen ( French dolmen à couloir ) of Pen-Nioul, which are roughly aligned along an east-west axis, are separated from each other by about 250 m.
The northern dolmen is a P-shaped complex of 2.5 × 1.5 m, which is not uncommon in the region, consisting of 14 small supporting stones and the remains of a corridor consisting of four stones. The ceiling panels are missing.
The approximately 2.5 m long and 1.8 m wide oval southern structure consists of nine bearing stones (two are missing), two preserved corridor stones and a displaced, slipped ceiling slab. Two large plates form the floor.
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
- 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.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '38 " N , 2 ° 51' 33.8" W.