Kervin-Brigitte

The huge capstone of the dolmen of Kervin-Brigitte rests about a meter above the ground on the only two remaining bearing stones in a field near Crac'h , southwest of Auray 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 capstone has a length of 6.7 m, a width of up to 3.4 m and a thickness of 1.5 m. The western bearing stone is 4.9 m long and 1.0 m thick. The northern bearing stone has a length of 2.5 m and a thickness of 1.0 m. Due to the small amount of remains, the type of system cannot be recognized.

See also

• Megalithic sites in Brittany

literature

• Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
• James Miln : Explorations du Mané-Roullarde, auprès de la Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan). In: Bulletin de la Société Polymathique du Morbihan. Semestre 1, 1882, ISSN  0767-9882 , pp. 70-77 , (also special copy . Galles, Vannes 1883, ( digitized )).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ker is a Breton appellative that is often used as a prefix for place names. It means: "inhabited place".

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Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 2.2 "  N , 3 ° 1 ′ 23.5"  W.