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Carnac at france-for-visitors.com (includes map) Online photo exhibition of the Carnac region's megaliths includes the giant menhir of Loqmariaquer, and marked and inscribed stones; An amateur's guide to visiting the Carnac stones by car; The megaliths of Carnac: Dolmen / passage graves – comprehensive list of dolmens in area with photos.
The Carnac stones were erected during the Neolithic period which lasted from around 4500 BC until 2000 BC. The precise date of the stones is difficult to ascertain as little dateable material has been found beneath them, but the site's main phase of activity is commonly attributed to c. 3300 BC.
al-Rustaq, al-multi-period settlement and burial area; al-Salayli, multi-period burial and metal-producing site; al-Saruj Late Iron Age grave; al-Shariq 2 trilith site; al-Wasit Late Bronze Age settlement and burial area; Amla/al-Fuwaydah Pre-Islamic recent period burial ground; Bandar Jissa 1 Late Iron Age cemetery; Bawshar settlement and ...
View of the Le Menec stone alignments with the Saint-Michel tumulus in the distance (top right). The tumulus was built during the fifth millennium BC. It consists of a mound of earth and stones 125 metres (410 ft) long, 50 metres (160 ft) wide and 10 metres (33 ft) high. [1]
Each set is organised with the tallest stones at the western end and shorter ones at the eastern end. Some end with a semicircular cromlech, but many have since fallen or been destroyed. [17] The second largest concentration of menhirs in France is at the Cham des Bondons, which is located on high open limestone plain in the granitic Cévennes.
The Morbihan is one of the original 83 departments created on 4 March 1790 during the French Revolution.It was created from a part of the Duchy of Brittany.. In 1945, cadets from École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, France's foremost military academy for officers, were relocated to Camp Coëtquidan (Camp de Coëtquidan) in Guer.
France: In France important megalithic zones are situated in Vendée, Quercy and in the south of France (Languedoc, Rouergue and Corsica). Amongst the vast Neolithic collections of the Carnac stones in Brittany, several dozen dolmens are found.
On its portal is a decoration depicting three lily flowers in relief and a stone bearing the date 1813 and a damaged patch representing the arms of Robien. During the summer months of July and August "friends of the chapel" association has chosen to use the chapel for exhibitions of contemporary art, at the same time highlighting the work of ...