> LOCMARIAQUER THE PENINSULA AND ITS MONUMENTS A CRADLE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH BEFORE THE MEGALITHS GRAND-MENHIR (GREAT MENHIR) ER-GRAH TUMULUS TABLE DES MARCHANDS (MERCHANTS' TABLE) FROM MANE-LUD TO MANE-ER-HROEG PIERRES-PLATES (FLAT STONES), A LATE TOMB MEGALITHIC ART IN LOCMARIAQUER ANTIQUE AND MEDIEVAL LOCMARIAQUER

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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

Ancient decoration

A possible interpretation

LEARNING TO READ GAVRINIS

Major symbols

Secondary symbols

ANCIENT 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