Le Guilliguy
The gallery grave of Le Guilliguy ( Breton Ar Giligi ) seems to be a Knick dolmen ( French Dolmen á coudé ) located close to the ocean on a 30.0-meter-high cliff Pointe de Guilligui in the field of Breton community Ploudalmézeau over the harbor of the district Portsall in West of the Finistère department is located in Brittany in France .
The incomplete excavations carried out by Michel Le Goffic in 1991 and 1992 led to important discoveries. The monument, understood as the Allée couverte , was revealed after the excavation as a dolmen with side access, which is rare in Brittany. In addition, the buried, oval stone that closed the soul hole was discovered nearby . The dolmen appears today as a right-angled megalithic structure , the access of which was partially destroyed by the construction of a tomb in the Bronze Age and one of its capstones was robbed. In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ).
During the excavations, a “workshop” for microliths from the Mesolithic (around 8000 years ago) was discovered in a test trench .
description
The dolmen
The dolmen consists of the damaged corridor oriented approximately in north-south direction with a remaining length of about four meters, of which only three bearing stones have been preserved. A lateral soul hole at the eastern end enables access to the 6.6 meter long chamber, of which all eleven bearing stones and two (probably five) cap stones have been preserved. A once closed and only partially preserved antechamber lies in the west. Remains of the oval hill border are preserved on the south side. The covering mound of earth ( tumulus ) has disappeared as well as the filling stones between the orthostats .
Menhir
About 50 meters to the south-east there is a menhir indicateur , which towers only about 1.2 meters and its connection with the burial site can only be speculated. Another stone of about the same size is right next to it.
Stone cross
On the highest point of the ledge, about 15 meters behind the burial chamber, a four-meter high monolithic stone cross was erected in 1895 , the shaft and cross arms of which are carved in octagonal form. The cross is dated to 1715 and stood in the nearby former cemetery for 180 years.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard (text), Nicolas Fediaevsky (photos): Mégalithes de Bretagne . Édition Ouest-France, Rennes 1992 (new edition), ISBN 2-7373-1167-5 .
Web links
- Galerie dolménique in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Les mégalithes du Guilliguy (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '15.2 " N , 4 ° 42' 11.4" W.