Long graves of Brittany
The older long graves of Brittany ( French tertre tumulaire ) are the oldest form of Neolithic architecture in this area. The Breton Neolithic followed the Mesolithic (documented, inter alia, on the Île Téviec ).
The older long or round mounds ( French tumuli ) contain round, oval or square wooden or stone boxes ( French coffres ), often without skeletal remains or corpses. The few grave goods is Silex , cross-edged arrowheads , pointed necked ax and zerscherbte rundbodige Carn ceramic .
The rectangular or oval mounds of earth, framed by curb stones or dry masonry (including white quartz ), are mostly east-west oriented, only 0.5 to 2.0 meters high, but 50–100 m long and 15–35 m wide. They appeared before or accompanied the first megalithic systems , which in turn were built around 4500 BC. BC as the oldest large stone architecture in Europe. Well-known tumuli are those of:
- Tumuli de la Croix Saint-Pierre , near St. Just, Ille-et-Vilaine
- Megaliths of La Gaudinais , near Langon in the Ille-et-Vilaine department
- Kerleven in La Forêt-Fouesnant ( Finistère )
- Kerlescan , near Carnac ( Morbihan department )
- Kermario , near Carnac (Morbihan department)
- near Quiberon (Morbihan Department)
See also
literature
- Werner envelope: stone markings of Brittany. Dreves, Rosengarten 1989, ISBN 3-924-53200-1 .
- Joël Lecornec: Le tertre tumulaire du Soucho en Pluvigner (Morbihan). In: Annales de Bretagne. Volume 79, No. 1, 1972, pp. 35-37, doi : 10.3406 / abpo.1972.2618 .
