Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Sépulture mégalithique de Sigré
Carentoir, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Sépulture mégalithique, y compris une bande de terrain de 5 m de large autour des pièces visibles du monument (cad. 38 C) : inscription par arrêté du 6 mai 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/05/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument funéraire
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Sigré
- Commune
- Carentoir
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.77949, -2.19925
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091073
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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
Cette sépulture consiste en une allée couverte ruinée, ayant subi un début de fouille ancienne, comportant encore une cellule terminale bien conservée et quatre piliers de la chambre principale toujours debout, ainsi que trois dalles dressées délimitant le tertre côté sud-ouest. La disposition de certaines dalles, transversales par rapport à l'axe du monument, laissent envisager la possibilité d'un compartimentage de la chambre et d'une entrée latérale près de l'extrémité sud-est. Le tertre, de forme indécise, ne semble pas avoir été notablement perturbé, l'exploration ancienne s'étant limitée à la chambre.
English translation
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History
This sepulchre consists of a ruined covered passage, which has undergone an early excavation, still comprising a well-preserved terminal cell and four pillars of the main chamber still standing, as well as three upright slabs delimiting the mound on the south-west side. The disposition of certain slabs, transverse to the axis of the monument, suggests the possibility of a compartmentalisation of the chamber and a lateral entrance near the south-east end. The mound, of indeterminate shape, does not appear to have been notably disturbed, the early exploration having been limited to the chamber.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.