> GAVRINIS
AN EXCEPTIONAL MONUMENT
HISTORY
EXTERNAL ARCHITECTURE
INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE
DECORATION
LEARNING TO READ GAVRINIS
MAJOR SYMBOLS
SECONDARY SYMBOLS
EARLIER DECORATION
RE-WORKED DECORATION
HIDDEN DECORATION
A POSSIBLE INTERPRETATION
> INTRODUCTION
> LOCATION OF THE MONUMENTS
MEGALITHISM IN MORBIHAN
Carnac
Gavrinis
Locmariaquer
The Petit-Mont
Architectural types
Architectural types
Mausoleums
Standing stones
Evolution and transformation
CARNAC
The Carnac area
"Astonishing heaps of stones"
An army of stones
From Le Menec to Toul-Chignan
From Kermario to Le Manio
Kerlescan
Other menhirs
The Saint-Michel tumulus
Other mounds, from Le Moustoir to Le Manio
The Kercado and Mané-Kerioned passage graves
Other dolmens
Before and after the megaliths
From Kermario to Le Manio
Kerlescan
Mausoleums
Milestones
Early tombs
Tumular mounds
Dolmenic tombs
Other architectural types
GAVRINIS
An exceptional monument
History
External architecture
Internal architecture
Decoration
Learning to read Gavrinis
Earlier decoration
A possible interpretation
LEARNING TO READ GAVRINIS
Major symbols
Secondary symbols
EARLIER DECORATION
Re-worked decoration
Hidden decoration
LOCMARIAQUER
The peninsula and its monuments
A cradle of archaeological research
Before the megaliths
Grand-Menhir (great menhir)... and the others
Er-Grah tumulus
Table-des-Marchands (merchants' table)
From Mané-Lud to Mané-er-Hroeg
Pierres-plates (Flat stones), a late tomb
Megalithic art in Locmariaquer
Locmariaquer, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
THE PETIT-MONT
At the heart of Rhuys Peninsula
From the war of the Gauls...
Before the megaliths
Three interconnecting cairns
The cairn II dolmen
The cairn III dolmens
Petit-Mont art
From the Campaniforms to the Gallo-Roman era