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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Le Tombeau du GéantCountry: France
NOTE: This site is 1.697 km away from the location you searched for.
Département: Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Ploërmel Nearest Village: Paimpont
Latitude: 47.986275N Longitude: 2.257018W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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Alignment in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35)
Le Tombeau du Géant is a bronze age grave (around 1500 BC) constructed out of three menhirs that date from around 2200 BC. Today two of them form the chamber, the third lies 8m West from the site. The menhirs are around 4m large and 1m wide.
Around the side are various other stones that formed the tumulus of the bronze age grave.
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