Dolmens de Mane Kerioned

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47° 36' 55.83 N
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3° 5' 11.3 W
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Carnac in October, outside of the main alignments the rest of the sites are tourist free. Interesting little complex of 3 dolmens, the one to the front of the photo being underground and naturally therefore the most interesting

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Alignment or remains of a circle at Mané Kerioned.

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Chamber of the western tomb from behind one of the stones of the alignment(?)/circle(?).

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Chamber of the western passage grave, with the earlier, central tomb to the left.

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Chalked-in artwork at the underground passage grave.

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Apparently these are supposed to be part of a stone circle around the complex, but they are in a row not an arc, so ?

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The lesser of the two overground dolmens, still pretty good.

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postman Aug 14, 2014
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The underground dolmens capstone.

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The underground dolmen, the rock by the sign is the dolmens capstone.

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postman Aug 14, 2014
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Underground overground (Wombling free)

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Saturday 24 April 2005 The various tombs to the right and stone row in foreground

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Saturday 24 April 2005

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Saturday 24 April 2005 3 tombs – side-on passage grave in background, head-on ruined passage grave in mid-ground & exposed capstone to ‘intact’ underground tomb in foreground

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Saturday 24 April 2005 Notice capstone to same tomb in background

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Moth Nov 23, 2009
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Saturday 24 April 2005

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All the stones were carved – some imperceptibly, but imagine when these were painted – it must have been bonkers!

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Jane Aug 2, 2007
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Spaceship Mark considers the size of the mound which must have once covered this terrific monument.

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Jane Aug 2, 2007
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The subterranean chamber.

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What I believe is a Roman road encroaches on the remains of the mound

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Dolmens de Mane Kerioned

postman
postman Aug 15, 2014

Situated right next to the road, the D768 from Auray to Ploharnel, and less than half a mile north east from the roundabout, cant be missed.
Has anyone else noticed how half the places in Brittany begin with either of two syllables, Plo ‘n’ ker, can we read into this ancient communications with people of Peckham. Probably not.
If the D768 is in fact an old Roman road I cant understand why it runs nicely and harmlessly by, if the Romans were so very bad why didn’t they destroy all three Dolmens?
Did you get that? three Dolmens? three of them in an area no bigger than a big back yard.
The underground one is arguably the most interesting, the stairs that go down to it is only two feet from the side of the road, careful, it’s also five or six feet below you too. Passing into the chamber we notice that some one has been chalking in the ancient carvings, these carvings are more abstract than the ones ive seen so far.
The chamber is dry and dark, the sound of passing traffic is muted, if you listen carefully you could perhaps hear mothers voice and distant music.
Above ground you might mistake the massive capstone for a random half buried rock, from some angles there appears to be only two Dolmens here, the underground tomb is most interesting.
Right next to it is the more knackered of the two allee couverts, it is low and only has two capstones. But just a few meters away is the big impressive one, it still has four capstones in place and one of them is really big. Some allee couverts are very long but these seem to have been quite short ones.
There is, it has been said, the remains of a stone circle here too. But i’m just not sure, four stones are all I could see and three of them were in a row not an arc. When these Dolmen were complete and perfect, would all three have been covered by the same mound or would they have all had their separate mounds.
This is a cool and mysterious place that brings to mind lots of questions, as is the whole of the Carnac area. Back home if you see a big stone near a stone circle you cant help wondering if it is some thing, but in Carnac it is usually always something, your just falling over somethings, they are everywhere.

Dolmens de Mane Kerioned

Jane
Jane Aug 2, 2007

Sitting right by the main Roman road, this complex of three dolmens has absolutely tons to enjoy! One is a classy large allée couverte with four caps still up, later I painted this. Another is rather trashed. The third is still underground bit with the top of its whopping capstone exposed at ground level.

Descending the steps into the long passageway you finally reach the very large chamber which is tall enough for me to stand up in. Like an idiot I’d forgotten the torch. I dashed back to the car.

The torch revealed some terrific carvings of wavy and straight lines, crossed lines, triangles, figures and things I didn’t recognise or describe.

What a fab site!

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