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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: La Table des MarchandsCountry: France Département: Bretagne:Morbihan (56) Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Auray Nearest Village: Locmariaquer
Latitude: 47.571400N Longitude: 2.9497W
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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markj99 visited on 14th Sep 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 La Table des Merchants is one of Locmariaquer's big three sites. It is only accessible via the Site des Megalithes Visitor Centre for 6 euros. To be fair, there are three impressive monuments, unrestricted visiting time and free parking so what's not to like?
La Table des Merchants is a cairn constructed in 1993 around the surviving naked dolmen for the preservation of the antiquity. It was interesting to see the carved rear stone and ceiling in the chamber. However, the new cairn reminds me of the reconstructed cairn at Newgrange. I prefer my ancient monuments unadulterated.
lichen visited on 29th Aug 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5
aolson visited on 18th Jul 2020 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Extensively rebuilt, so it is hard to know how much of it is actually original, but it gives one interpretation of what something like this may have looked like when built.
w650marion visited on 24th Sep 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5 Second visit. Visitor centre film changes with the latest info, translates into 4 languages with headphones.
rrmoser visited on 30th May 2017 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5
Chrus visited on 1st Jan 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
43559959 visited on 25th Apr 2014 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5
justme visited on 1st Sep 2011 - their rating: Amb: 3 Access: 5
Andy B visited on 21st Jul 2009 Serge Cassen is interviewed in here and we look at the carvings in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
TheCaptain visited on 11th Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Much has been written about this place by others already, and I wont spend valuable daylight by sitting and writing anymore for myself, except to say that it is all very different to what it was in 1987, and that the current thinking is that the Grand Menhir was once just one of 19 stood up in a row, and was toppled deliberately after only a couple of hundred years. The other menhirs were broken and used for other purposes.
johnstone visited on 8th Jun 2002 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Orcinus visited on 1st Jan 1988 Visited in 1988 as part of the Brittany Project.
X-Ice visited on 17th Aug 1982 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
negus visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5
Catrinm visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Its all a bit clinical now
ShamrockStone neolithique02 Jimwithnoname DrewParsons Martin_L ermine davidmorgan have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.33 Ambience: 4.08 Access: 4.46
The large chamber has several stones with some wonderful carvings and decorations on them, including the main capstone of the chamber, which has on its underside an axe, and part of an engraving of a plough being drawn by some oxen.
This engraving shows that the capstone is a reused part of a massive broken menhir, as two other parts of the same stone, with carvings which match across the breaks, are to be found also reused as burial chamber capstones, at neighbouring Er-Grah and at Gavrinis, 2 km away.
The stone at the back of the chamber is a wonderful engraved stele, with carvings possibly representative of fields of corn.
Access is no longer free to the site, and is only open during normal hours, with a payment due in the visitor centre.
For more information also see the Journal of Antiquities entry for La Grand Menhir Brise, Locmariquer, Morbihan, Brittany - scroll down this webpage for a photograph and description.
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