Le Petit Mont
The restored stone grave Le Petit Mont is located near the port of Port du Crouesty, on a granite rock south of Arzon on the Rhuys Peninsula in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France . The huge cairn is 60 meters long and 46 meters wide and is six to seven meters high.
The blind walls made of loose stone slabs form eight levels. The megalithic complex comprised at least three passage dolmen ( French dolmen à couloir ), of which dolmens 2 and 3 have been preserved. The cairn was created in three phases, the oldest dating from 4,600 BC. Chr. The Dolmen show engravings on a number of side plates of the passages and the support plates of the chamber are the axes in a circle, wavy mark and Stieläxte. Dolmen 2 also has an engraving on its floor slab, which was used as a secondary use, from a destroyed plate menhir and on a ceiling slab of the corridor. The grave goods include hatchets and ceramics as well as Venus statuettes from Roman times, which prove the conversion of the site into a Venus temple.
It was excavated in 1864 and restored for the first time in early 1906. During the Second World War , the hill was badly damaged in 1943 by the installation of a Wehrmacht bunker, which today houses a documentation center (one dolmen was completely destroyed, another damaged). After the restoration by J. Lecornec between 1979 and 1988, Le Petit Mont - apart from the bunker entrance - again largely faithfully reproduces its original architecture.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '12.5 " N , 2 ° 54" 7.5 " W.