Dolmen de Roh-an-Aod

Also known as:
Dolmen du Roch and Roch En Aud
Latitude:
47° 31' 29.47 N
Longitude:
3° 8' 13.29 W
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Image of Dolmen de Roh-an-Aod by Moth

Sunday 17 April 2005

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Nov 25, 2009
Image of Dolmen de Roh-an-Aod by Moth

Sunday 17 April 2005

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Nov 25, 2009
Image of Dolmen de Roh-an-Aod by Moth

Sunday 17 April 2005

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Nov 25, 2009
Image of Dolmen de Roh-an-Aod by Moth

Sunday 17 April 2005 Love the way the road kerbstones have been reshaped around the protruding bits of dolmen, though I guess it means if a vehicle mounts the kerb....

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Nov 25, 2009

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Dolmen de Roh-an-Aod

postman
postman Aug 16, 2014

JC’s directions got me there perfectly and without incident, as you pass the very small right hand turn off you can see the dolmen, but keep going to the large apparently free car park.
How utterly ridiculous and yet completely brilliant this strange little dolmen is. I cant imagine what saved it from the greedy little stone wrecking paws of the local inhabitants, lightning strike ? conscientious clergy man ? or loud booming words from above ? what ever, it is here, and one would hope for a lot longer.
I have not seen a dolmen constructed in this way before, most curious, the entire edifice is corbelled. Some burial chambers have corbelled roofing and we think that’s pretty good, but the builders of Roh-an-Aod decided to make the whole structure a lesson in corbelling. You cant help trying to guess how many roof stones are missing, we got it to be anywhere between one and three. Was there a passage ? or was it always straight into the large circular chamber.

When Eric and me got there, a car was being unloaded into the house with the external stairs that one has to climb in order to get “that” picture, looking down into it. So we waited and he drove off, but the house is far from deserted these days, so a quick up and down, vroooaaum, and were done. Were off to the beach now, one that just happens to be by a stone circle and some stone rows, vroooaaum.

Dolmen de Roh-an-Aod

Jane
Jane Jul 29, 2007

Julian calls it the Roh-an-Aod dolmen in TME, but the roadsigns point you to dolmen du Roch.

This very large dolmen occupies an entire plot in a small village setting, tightly squeezed on all sides by cottages and houses. We liked this one a lot as it so clearly refuses to be taken over by the human development around it. Defiant and wonderful.

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