Lorette stone circle
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The stone circle of Lorette ( French Cromlech Notre Dame-de-Lorette ) is located on a hill next to the Chapelle de Notre Dame of Lorette west of Le Quillio in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France .
The unusual stone circle is also described in various sources as Cromlech quadrilatére , Allée couverte , stone row or tumulus . The local notice board says that it is the remains of a Neolithic long hill.
To the north of the chapel there are two rows of about 20.0 m long, made up of 28 stones, about 10.0 m apart. The largest stone is 1.8 m high. The rows are made of two types of stone: the northern row is made of gray quartz blocks , while the southern row is made of green dolerite . At the western end there are some blocks that make the whole thing a horseshoe shape.
So it is perhaps the curb ring around a hill, the embedded remains of a gallery grave have disappeared.
The monument has been classified as a Monument historique since 1926 .
See also
literature
- Pierre-Roland Giot, J. L'Helgouac'h: Fouille du tertre tumulaire de Notre-Dame de Lorette au Quillio. Annales de Bretagne, n ° 63, 1, 1956, pp. 22-28
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lorette stone circle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 33.6 " N , 2 ° 54 ′ 27.6" W.