Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Dolmen du Petit-Mont
Arzon, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Dolmen du Petit-Mont (cad. AV 2) : classement par arrêté du 5 août 1904
- Protection dates
- 1904/08/05 : classé MH
- Type
- dolmen
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Lieu-dit
- Petit Mont
- Commune
- Arzon
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.53674, -2.90214
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090988
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLeiden University Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ensemble mesurant 60x50 mètres, construit entre 5000 et 2000 avant J-C, en trois phases distinctes. Les sépultures contenaient un important mobilier funéraire, ainsi que des gravures sur les dalles des parois et du plafond. Le site a été utilisé jusqu'à la période gallo-romaine (4e siècle de notre ère) , comme en témoigne le dépôt de statuettes et autel votif. En 1943, les troupes allemandes y installèrent un bunker.
English translation
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History
Complex measuring 60x50 metres, constructed between 5000 and 2000 BC, in three distinct phases. The burials contained significant funerary goods, as well as engravings on the slabs of the walls and ceiling. The site was used until the Gallo-Roman period (4th century AD), as evidenced by the deposit of statuettes and votive altar. In 1943, German troops installed a bunker there.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmendolmen1 mi
- Butte de Thumiac ou de Césarédifice fortifié1 mi
- Dolmen sous cairn dit de la pointe de Bilgroixdolmen1 mi
- Alignements de Kerpenhirmégalithes2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.