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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kerran Dolmens Alternative Name: Roh-VrasCountry: France Département: Bretagne:Morbihan (56) Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Auray Nearest Village: St-Philibert
Latitude: 47.598300N Longitude: 2.9878W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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TheCaptain visited on 12th Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 From the busy Chat Noir roundabout to the south of Crac'h, take a small lane to the southeast, a few hundred metres along which you find a little clearing to the right of the lane within which this tomb resides. I was not quite sure what to make of it, there are two obvious chambers, both still with capstones, but there looks to be more. I think it was probably two dolmens with entrance corridors, probably both once contained within a single mound.
The first, western chamber, has a 3 metre by 3 metre capstone on a chamber twice the size, possibly seperated into two by an internal stone. The eastern chamber is 3 m by 2 m and has an end stone, with a probable entrance to the south. As with most of the lesser known monuments around here, it is all becoming very overgrown with gorse and brambles, which is a real shame.
There was once a third dolmen here, which was bought and then completely removed in order to make a family tomb of the Archéologist Jean-Baptiste Piketty (1827-1884) in the cemetary at Meudon.
johnstone visited on 8th Jun 2002 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4
ShamrockStone regina Martin_L ermine have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 3 Access: 4
From the busy Chat Noir roundabout to the south of Crac'h, take a small lane to the southeast, a few hundred metres along which you find a little clearing to the right of the lane within which this tomb resides.
I was not quite sure what to make of it, there are two obvious chambers, both still with capstones, but there looks to be more. I think it was probably two dolmens with entrance corridors, probably both once contained within a single mound.
The first, western chamber, has a 3 metre by 3 metre capstone on a chamber twice the size, possibly seperated into two by an internal stone. The eastern chamber is 3 m by 2 m and has an end stone, with a probable entrance to the south.
As with most of the lesser known monuments around here, it is all becoming very overgrown with gorse and brambles, which is a real shame.
I found out after my visit that there was once a third dolmen here, which was bought and then completely removed in order to make the family tomb of the Archéologist Jean-Baptiste Piketty (1827-1884) in the cemetary at Meudon.
Burl reports it is alleged there was once a spiral carved rock nearby, but no hard evidence was found.
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