La Ville bouquet
The Allée couverte from La Ville-Bouquet is located in the urban area of Ploërmel in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France . This also ( German "hell house" ) called gallery grave is located on the spur of a plateau, close to the River Ninian in a small forest.
The monument is dated to around 2500 BC. Dated. The north-south facing system, from which stones were removed, consists of slabs of nearby Nagelfluh (also called pudding stone). Despite the lack of a few stones in the middle part, it appears to be the classic model of an allée couverte. The megalithic complex was originally 7.5–9.0 meters long, with an average width of 1.20 m. The bearing stones end about 1.20 m above ground level. No remains of the covering tumulus have been preserved.
In 1985 an excavation was carried out under the direction of Jacques Briard , Head of Research at CNRS. The aim of the campaign was to obtain information about daily life by examining soil samples and pollen. These samples showed that 4500 years ago the Ploërmel region was being used for agriculture (growing of grain), whereas previously only clearing was known.
Nearby are the Allée couverte of Haut-Bézon , the Dolmen La Ville au Voyer and the Allée couverte du Hino .
See also
literature
- Pierre-Roland Giot , Jacques Briard : Protohistoire de la Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1979, ISBN 2-858820-89-9 , (Université) .
- Jacques Briard: Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '0 " N , 2 ° 25' 54" W.