Dolmen de Kerguerhen

Also known as:
Dolmen de Er Roc'h and Kerguerhan
Latitude:
47° 40' 48.03 N
Longitude:
3° 11' 12.2 W
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Dolmen de Kerguerhen

Jane
Jane Jul 30, 2007

We thought we’d have a go and look for some monuments we’d spotted on the map at Belz, a seaside village a few kilometres away. We had only a not-very-detailed map and my megalithic radar to guide us. We subsequently discovered these don’t even feature in Burl’s ‘Megalithic Brittany’, so we were pleased to have found two of the three marked on the map.

Driving around a bit around the village a bit, we located this Belz dolmen (west) up to its knees in soaking wet buttercups on a patch of land occupying an entire building plot among the houses.

Dolmen de Kerguerhen

Spaceship mark
Spaceship mark Jul 29, 2007

18:06:03

At the side of the road, in the hamlet of Kerguérhen near Belz sits the Dolmen de Er Roc’h. This is more like the Carnac dolmens I’m used too. It is a mid-period passage grave with some differentiation between the passage and the chamber. A smallish and understated dolmen it is today half covered by ivy, and even the floor inside is carpeted with the voracious climber.
These are the unpretentious, unimposing dolmens that one finds all over this area. These are not such monsters as the Grand Tumuli, which would draw pilgrims from miles around, but the small family tombs serving the outlying communities of the Carnac area. Almost like the domestic shrines found in the homes of Hindus.
But still I must visit for that is my mission, and in order to get the whole picture one must see all the pixels…

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