Tombeau des géants
The Tombeau des géants ( German "Grave of the Giants" ) is a semimegalithic complex in the forest of Brocéliande ( French La Forêt de Brocéliande ). The forest is located west of Rennes in High Brittany , where it is shown on today's maps as the “Forest of Paimpont ”. The formation once known as the “witch's rock” is located above the village of Beauvais near Campénéac in the far north of the Morbihan department in France .
Delimitations
A hill of the same name lies in a bend of the Semois ( German "Sesbach" ) e near Bouillon in Belgium .
The Allée couverte
It is a very large, closed megalithic grave , the longitudinal walls of which consist of a huge slate block each about 4.50 m long and 1 m high. The only ceiling slab, also made of slate , was placed next to the grave by the treasure hunters of the 19th century. The transverse walls are made of dry masonry . The inner dimensions of the somewhat damaged grave are three meters in length and 1.30 meters in width.
About eight meters north of the tomb of the giants is a four-meter-long menhir , which is one of a series of tombs from the older Bronze Age (around 1500 BC). The stones of Neolithic alignments that previously stood near this point were probably used for this . Alignments facing north-south are known from the forest of Paimpont (Pierre Drette 2 km east of Comper Castle). There are a number of allées couvertes in the Broceliande forest area :
- Brousses Noires
- Merlin's grave ( Le tombeau de Merlin )
- Viviane's House ( L'Hotié de Viviane )
The Rocher du Pas de la Chévre near Concoret is a rock formation.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 30.8 ″ N , 2 ° 16 ′ 8.8 ″ W.