The Mané Kerioned dolmens and the Quéric la Lande dolmens The stone circle at the west end of the Le Ménec alignments, Village, about 1 km east of Le Hahon village The stones from the passage can be seen in the wall across the streetĬhamber still has its huge capstone and a bit of its passage The capstone has fallen into chamber on one side Gold necklace, vases and stone axes were buried in the dolmen The northern dolmen has an 11-metre long passage and a small side-chamber Southern dolmen of group of three is a simple passage tombĬentral wedge-shaped dolmen has a 6-metre chamber with engravings Only chamber remains today until lately was used as henhouse and storage shed Passage Dolmen (Arranged from west to east) CrucunoĪbout half way between Plouharnel and Erdevan inġ864 description says chamber plus passage was 27 metres More will be located and photographed in future trips to Carnac. We could not find all the dolmen marked on our maps. Or farmer's fields and still others not marked on maps and only foundīy pure luck. There are more dolmen thanĪre shown here some are badly destroyed, others inaccessible in woods Region around Carnac and the Gulf of Morbihan. The map below shows the locations of major dolmen in the To rest against each other forming a triangular chamber. They are either roofed with large capstones or the walls are inclined The gallery tomb is a long rectangle, often divided intoĬompartments by slabs of rock, and covered by a long mound of earth and Type in Ireland and the Orkney Islands north of Scotland. This last type is not very common around Carnac but is the major In the transeptual passageĭolmen, one or more side chambers open off the passage near the innerĮnd. Of up to 90° about half way along the passage. The second type is a very long wedge-shaped tomb with a bend The wedge-shaped dolmen had no distinct separation between the passageĪnd chamber the passage was simply wider at the inner end than at theĮntrance. Later three variations of the simple passage dolmen evolved. The chamber,Īlso lined by large stones, was roofed either by huge, flat stones calledĬapstones or by a corbelled dome. Was lined with upright stones covered by horizontal lintels. Or rectangular chamber connected to the entrance by a corridor. The simplest and oldest form of passage graves is a round There are some particularly large gallery tombs in the Loire Gallery graves are more widely distributed throughoutįrance and the rest of Europe, especially in northern Germany, ScandinaviaĪnd Britain. Of passage graves are found in southern and western Spain, southern EnglandĪnd in central Ireland. Of the dolmen in the Carnac region are passage graves. Were covered by circular mounds and gallery graves which were coveredīy long mounds (called round barrows and long barrows in Britain). There are two main types of dolmen: passage graves which In the Carnac area was built 1000 years before the pyramids in Egypt. The older ones wereįamily or community graves, used over many generations. Probably covered by a mound of earth and/or stone. The dolmen are megalithic tombs built of stone.
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