Jardin aux Moines

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Garden of the monks

The Jardin aux Moines ( German  "Garden of the Monks" ) is a semi- megalithic complex north of Tréhorenteuc in the forest of Brocéliande ( French La Forêt de Brocéliande ). The forest is located west of Rennes in High Brittany , where it is shown on today's French maps as the “Forest of Paimpont ”. The facility is located in the municipality of de Néant-sur-Yvel, in the Morbihan department near the border with the Ille-et-Vilaine department .

Garden of the monks

description

The "monk's garden" was described in the last century as the "road of menhirs " because of its extremely rare border ( French enceinte-quadrilatère ) . It is a Neolithic long grave, which is bordered on its south side with local red slate and quartz plates . The north side consists of white pudding stone ( French poudingue ) brought in from a distance of three kilometers . The ensemble is 25 m long and 6 m wide. The unmegalithic chamber contains two partitions to the north, which show a successive enlargement. Similar systems, the collapsed chambers of which today only appear as piles of stones, can also be found elsewhere in western France.

Pudding stone

Ceramic finds from the end of the Neolithic (3000-2500 BC) made dating possible. The monk's garden was also later used as a burial site or cult site. In a small foyer arrowheads found in Silex , from the Bronze Age come (around 2000 v. Chr.).

In the vicinity there are tumuli ,

  • La Butte aux Tombes ( [1] French)
  • La Butte Ronde

and the megalithic systems

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Jardin aux Moines  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Pudding stones are old-tertiary conglomerates with heavily unrolled flint and sandy, quartzitic or phosphorous binder with or without glauconite grains. Key fossils are unknown from them, so the age cannot be determined. Similar to English pudding stones, they are placed in the Paleocene, but they may be younger. According to Roedel (1926) they probably come from the SW Baltic States and the adjacent areas "

Coordinates: 48 ° 1'11 "  N , 2 ° 17'24"  W.