Four Sarrazin

Four Sarrazin

Four Sarrazin , also called Pierres Chevêches ( German  "Stones of the Owls" ), is a long hill with stone structures ("terte funeraire") on the edge of the heather of Cojoux, in the commune of Saint-Just in the Breton department of Ille-et-Vilaine in France .

The hill has a trapezoidal plan with a rounded end and is bordered by small slate stones. It is still 22 m long, 7 m wide and less than 1 m high. The megalithic burial chamber is elongated, currently 7 m long and an average of 1.2 m wide. It consists of 14 orthostats and three cap stones. Two small stones on the south side of the chamber led J. L'Helgouach to suspect in 1967 that it was a chamber with side access, comparable to that of de Crec'h-Quillé in Saint-Quay-Perros.

Grotto of the Fées de Tréal

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Grotto of the Fées de Tréal

Another, but more heavily damaged gallery grave is located three kilometers northwest of Saint-Just near Tréal in a hill. It is 15 m long and has 23 bearing stones and seven cap stones and has a side entrance that is offset from the center and consists of two stones.

The Alignements du Moulin de Cojoux are three rows of stones made of menhirs that are also located nearby.

See also

• Megalithic sites in Brittany

literature

• Charles Tanguy Le Roux, Yannick Lecerf, Maurice Gautier: Les mégalithes de Saint-Just (Ille-et-Vilaine) et la fouille des alignements du Moulin de Cojou. In: Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest. Vol. 6, No. 1, 1989, pp. 5-29, doi: 10.3406 / rao.1989.931 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charles Tanguy Le Roux, Yannick Lecerf, Maurice Gautier: Les mégalithes de Saint-Just (Ille-et-Vilaine) et la fouille des alignements du Moulin de Cojou. In: Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest. Vol. 6, No. 1, 1989, pp. 5–29, here Fig. 10.
2. ^ Charles Tanguy Le Roux, Yannick Lecerf, Maurice Gautier: Les mégalithes de Saint-Just (Ille-et-Vilaine) et la fouille des alignements du Moulin de Cojou. In: Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest. Vol. 6, No. 1, 1989, pp. 5-29, here p. 12.
3. ^ Charles Tanguy Le Roux, Yannick Lecerf, Maurice Gautier: Les mégalithes de Saint-Just (Ille-et-Vilaine) et la fouille des alignements du Moulin de Cojou. In: Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest. Vol. 6, No. 1, 1989, pp. 5-29, here p. 13.

Web links

• Entry no.PA00090792 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
• Private website, description in French. and pictures ( Memento from September 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Description of the basic plan and pictures (French)
• Monumentum, description and pictures (French)

Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 56 "  N , 1 ° 58 ′ 31"  W.