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Text Pages: Crec'h-ar-Argant - Standing Stone (Menhir) in France in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22)
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Submitted by TheCaptain on Sunday, 19 December 2004 Page Views: 1284
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 Site Name: Crec'h-ar-Argant Alternative Name: Menez Crec’h An Arhan, Kerivoa menhir
Country: France Département: Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Guingamp Nearest Village: Bourbriac
Latitude: 48.431900N Longitude: 3.2315W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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 | | 0 | no data |
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External Links:         There is a 6.5 metre tall menhir standing beside a path at Kerivoa, in the community of Bourbriac.
According to a report of the departmental committee of Antiquities in 1856, several small menhirs, now missing, were spaced around this great monolith.
In 1932 some bronze age necklaces and other treasures were found near here, and these are now in a Paris museum.
Nearby, at the edge of the track can be seen the remains of an allée couverte.
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Re: Kerivoa dolmen (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, 08 October 2007 | We've recently purchased a property in Brittany and we are within close proximity of the menhir of Bourbriac. Also when our barn was build (approx 1920's) 3 bronze age necklaces were found, which are now on display in a Paris museum. This is both fascinating and troublesome (getting planning permission through for a fosse septique took an age and we had to have an archaeologist on stand-by). However, we have no experience of menhirs and would like some basic advice or knowledge on how to find out the history of the Bourbriac Menhir.
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Re: Kerivoa dolmen (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, 08 October 2007 | Hello,
I am not sure where to start here, except to say that I have no personal knowledge of Bourbriac. Seeing your address given as ****, I will assume that the menhir of which you speak is near to Kerivoa, as the commune of Bourbriac has several megalithic remains (large prehistoric stone structures) within its bounds.
On the French ign maps, there is indeed a menhir marked at Kerivoa, but in fact, it is not a menhir (a standing stone) but the remains of a dolmen, which is a stone built burial chamber. This would have been constructed in the Bronze age, probably somewhere between 4000 and 2500 BC, in other words it is probably a good 5000 years old. It would originally have been covered with a mound of earth and stones, which over the years has been removed in one manner or another.
Often in these burial chambers, which were probably also used for other functions (I consider that they may be an ancient precursor to chapels and churches), there have been found treasures such as the necklaces of which you speak, which would have probably been placed there along with the burial of an important person of that time.
Also within the commune of Bourbriac, to the east, is the large Tanouedou burial mound, which is possibly similar to what was once at Kerivoa. There are also several other smaller tumuli to be seen.
I have tried to find out a bit more about this, but I cannot find much in any of the books I own. However, it is mentioned in the book “La Bretagne des Megalithes” by Pierre-Roland Giot, which if you are interested in the megaliths of Brittany, is a very useful book (in French), and contains references to over 750 of these sites in Brittany, with many small pictures.
http://www.amazon.fr/Bretagne-m%C3%A9galithes-Pierre-Roland-Giot/dp/2737342368
Kerivoa (or Kerivole) dolmen is registered as Historic Monument PA00089034.
I suggest that some local Breton organisations, or French archaeological societies will be able to help you more, try searching on google in French !
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