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Two families of monuments
As elsewhere in Europe, Armorican megaliths belong to 2 distinct
architectural families:
- "Spatially defined structures", where the
monument is concealed within an outer shell. This is the largest
family of "megalithic mausoleums", consisting of cairns,
mounds
and tumuli,
and containing various types of tombs, some of which were accessible
and some sealed in by the outer structure.
- "Dispersed" structures, consisting of single
stone blocks, standing either in isolation or in loosely spaced
groups. All the stones are significant both by themselves and
in relation to the surrounding landscape. |
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