Pierre Courcoulée (Landéan)

The Pierre Courcoulée

The Pierre Courcoulée

Pierre Courcoulée (also called Pierre des Huguenots ) is a Breton allée couverte in the municipality of Landéan . It is located in the southwest of the forest of Fougères , in the east of the Ille-et-Vilaine department , in France about 1000 m from the oppidum of Poulailler .

The approximately 3000 BC The megalithic complex, which is now disrupted , once consisted of 13 large, mostly rounded granite blocks . Twelve of them are bearing stones. The two cap stones visible today consist of a broken, partially offset plate. The edge of the hill can still be seen. The system measures six meters in length and is 1.3 m wide.

There are several megalithic sites around Fougères . Among other things, the Cordon des Druides , the Pierre du Trésor complex and the former Rocher Jacquot ensemble, two kilometers west of the forest , consisting of two Allée couvertes. A copper dagger from around 2000 BC was used here. Found.

See also

• Megalithic sites in Brittany
• Pierre Courcoulée (Les Ventes)

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 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 41 ″  N , 1 ° 11 ′ 2.5 ″  W.