Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Dolmen
Billiers, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Dolmen composé de cinq pierres groupées dans la base d'un tumulus allongé (cad. B 172) : inscription par arrêté du 17 août 1934
- Protection dates
- 1934/08/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- dolmen
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Lieu-dit
- les Grays
- Commune
- Billiers
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.51703, -2.49040
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091046
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Carte de l'Evesche de Nantes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Groupe de cinq dolmens englobés dans la base d'un tumulus allongé. Les dolmens sont enfouis jusqu'à hauteur des tables, lesquelles sont en mauvais état.
English translation
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History
Group of five dolmens encompassed in the base of an elongated tumulus. The dolmens are buried up to the height of the tables, which are in poor condition.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmen dit Le Crapauddolmenunder 1 mi
- Chapelle de Bavalanchapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.