La Ville au Voyer
La Ville au Voyer (also called La Maison Trouvée or Dolmen an Ti-Toull) is a Breton dolmen . It is located 500 m north of the eponymous village near La Chapelle-Caro , south of Ploërmel , in the Morbihan department in France .
description
The megalithic complex, enclosed by a tumulus about 20.0 m in diameter, is located in a small oak grove . Around 3000 BC The dolmen, which were built in BC, belong to the Angevin type (also known as the Loire type) that are found mainly in the Anjou . The dolmen of La Ville au Voyer has the remains of a small antechamber consisting of two side plates. Door pillars, one of which has a groove to accommodate the door, provide access to the main chamber. It is covered by a single 4.3 m long and 3.0 m wide, approximately 300 ton heavy sandstone slab , which rests on 8 supporting stones. White quartzite stones lie around the chamber .
In the area there are several Allée couvertes or dolmens (Allée couverte les Chambrettes, Allée couverte la Maison du Diable , Gajal allée couverte, Allée couverte von Haut-Bézon , Pas de Gargantua (Le Bignon), Allée Couverte de Saint-Méen, La Touche-Carné Dolmen). About one kilometer west of the village is one of several chapels called "La Chapelle Saint-Méen", which is associated with the Knights Templar.
- La Ville au Voyer or La Maison Trouvée
Legend
The dolmen was once the cave of the Folliards, who conjured their fate by throwing nine golden apples into a cauldron. Folliards are mythical, childlike creatures.
Nearby are the Allée couverte of La Ville-Bouquet (in Ploërmel) and the Allée couverte of Haut-Bézon to the southwest 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 .
Remarks
- ↑ The dolmen angevin is an allée couverte of the Loire type with a (retracted) trilith portal as an entrance, like the dolmen de la Pierre Folle in Bournand.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '12.5 " N , 2 ° 22' 41" W.