Mousseaux tumulus
The Tumulus of Mousseaux ( French Dolmen des Mousseaux ) is a megalithic complex near the port of Pornic , on the Côte de Jade, south of Saint-Nazaire in the French Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region .
The tumulus , known since 1840, excavated in the 1970s and restored by J. L'Helgouach (1933–2000), belongs to the type of the 5th or 4th millennium BC. Loiredolmen, which also include the neighboring double tumulus of Dissignac . It contains two differently shaped dolmens . In France, dolmen is the generic term for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ). The left of the dolmen of Mousseaux has the shape of a dew-cross with opposite side niches at the end of the passage. The right dolmen is a bisection of the left one, in the shape of the letter "F". The stone tumulus is a three-tiered hill that is raised concentrically . The pottery found is similar to that in the Morbihan and Finistère .
tourism
The Route Bleue ( German "Blue Route" ) runs through Saint-Nazaire and Pornic , along which eleven important prehistoric megalithic monuments are located. Below this is the Dissignac tumulus (No. 1) near the city. Among the dolmens of the Croix de Sandun (3), the Kerbourg (4), the du Riholo (5), that of the Rossignols (6), the Tumulus of Mousseaux, west of Pornic (9), the la Joselière (10) and of the Pré d'Aire (11), the numbers 9-11 on the Pays de Rets are particularly well known. There are also three menhirs: the menhir from Bissin (No. 2), the 2.1 m high Pierre de Couche (7) and the approximately 2.7 m high menhir de la Pierre Attelée (8), which has been a historical monument since 1992 is classified.
literature
- J. L'Helgouach & H. Poulain: Le cairn des Mousseaux à Pornic et les tombes mégalithiques transeptées de l'estuaire de la Loire . Association pour la diffusion des recherches archéologiques dans l'Ouest de la France, Rennes 1984
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Coordinates: 47 ° 6 ′ 56 " N , 2 ° 6 ′ 53.5" W.