Tumulus du Moustoir

overall view

Entrance to the western chamber

The Tumulus du Moustoir (also called Er Mané ) is about 85.0 m long, 35.0 m wide and 5.0 m high. The hill is in the south of the hamlet of Moustoir, a few kilometers north of Carnac in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France .

Menhir du Moustoir

Under the mound there is a dolmen at the western end , two chamber tombs at the eastern end and a stone circle remnant near the center. A menhir about 2.1 m high stands in the east on the hill and one about 3.0 m high stands nearby.

In the west of the hill, on the southern side, there is access to a rectangular chamber of around 5.0 × 2.5 meters with three small and one large capstone, which can be reached through a short corridor. The walls are made up of 8 large panels and dry masonry .

The main feature under the east of the hill is a two-story, truncated-cone-shaped round cairm with a dome tomb inside, the ceiling of which is designed as a cantilever vault , which is no longer accessible today . The pear-shaped chamber consists of 10, the corridor of 2 wall panels.

There is a menhir nearby .

literature

Pierre-Roland Giot, Jacques Briard : Protohistoire de la Bretagne (= Université. ). Ouest-France, Rennes 1979, ISBN 2-858820-89-9 .
Sibylle von Reden: The Megalithic Cultures. Evidence of a lost original religion. Major monuments in England, France, Ireland, Corsica, Malta, Northern Europe, Sardinia, Spain. 3rd, revised and changed new edition. DuMont, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1055-2 .