Tombeaux des Géants (Pont-Aven)
The Tombeau des Géants ( German "grave of the giants" ; also Tombeaux des Gaulois - German "... the Gauls" ; Tombeau de Bourg Neuf or Tombeaux des Rois - German called "the kings" ) of Pont-Aven is a rock tomb between the hamlet of Le Bourg Neuf and the confluence of the Aven , south of Pont-Aven in the Finistère department in Brittany in France .
Delimitations
A hill in a loop of the Semois river ( German "Sesbach" ) of the same name is located near Bouillon in Belgium . The semimegalithic complex, known as the Tombeau des géants , is located in the Brocéliande forest. Another grave of the giant is on the Causse Méjean in the Lozère department . Tombeau des Géants is the nickname of a megalithic complex in the necropolis of Bosc in the Lot-et-Garonne department .
description
Two vertical oval plates were cut into two outcrops . One measures around 4.1 × 1.65 m, the other 3.4 × 2.1 m. There is a large ceiling plate between the two. The complex does not belong to any known type of megalithic complex in the region. Nothing is known about the finds, so there is no dating.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 50.3 " N , 3 ° 44 ′ 38.4" W.