Lann-Mané-Braz

Scheme dolmen with side chamber - the "head niche" is missing in the Mané Braz (far left)

The dolmen of Lann-Mané-Braz (also called Mané Braz tumulus or Mané-Bras) are located on a large oval hill, a few hundred meters from the “Chemin des Megalithes” - “Street of the Megaliths” near Erdeven in the department Morbihan in Brittany in France . The megalithic structures have been recognized as a monument historique since 1923 .

Lann-Mané-Braz

description

The facility, which is oriented in the southeast direction, is a dolmen with side chambers (French: dolmen à chambre laterale ), similar to Mané Groh . The main corridor is about seven meters long (originally probably longer) and at the end has a total of four 2.0 by 1.5 m side chambers on both sides. Except for one, all eight cover stones and the bearing stones are present. The entrance is slightly lower than the rest of the megalithic complex .

The passage grave (French: dolmen à couloir ) with a trapezoidal chamber of 3.0 × 2.5 meters and a small side chamber, which is almost completely covered by a cover plate, is located about 15 m further , only at the transition to the approximately five meter long passage there is a second ceiling plate. The corridor tapers towards the entrance.

Lann-Mané-Braz

Next to the dolmen, at the top of the hill, are the smaller dolmens with almost no capstone, which have been preserved in the form of about 4.5 and 6.0 m long curved bearing stone corridors. While the roughly oval chamber can be seen in one system, the other system still has a pair of cap stones resting on an area that, because of its low height, must belong to the corridor. A chamber-like shape is not preserved.

Another facility is a bit out of the way. All bearing stones of the oval chamber and the bearing stones on one side of the corridor have been preserved.

There are several stones and the menhir of Mané Braz in the vicinity .

Nearby

Coët-ar-lead (Lann er Croc'h or La chaise de Cesar) stone row
Crucuno , dolmen and stone circle
Mané Groh , dolmen

literature

Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
Pierre-Roland Giot: Prehistory in Brittany. Menhirs and dolmens. Editions d'Art Jos le Doaré, Chateaulin 1991, ISBN 2-85543-076-3 .