Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Dolmen dit Table-des-Marchands
Locmariaquer, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Le dolmen (cad. G 776 à 778) : classement par liste de 1889
- Protection dates
- 1889 : classé MH
- Type
- site archéologique, dolmen
- Main period of construction
- Néolithique
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Locmariaquer
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.57162, -2.94976
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091386
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailLeiden 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
Dolmen construit entre 4000 et 3900 av. J.-C. C'est un dolmen à couloir menant à une chambre au centre du cairn circulaire. Dans la chambre, une dalle de grès est ornée d'une idole parée de crosses disposées symétriquement. Le plafond de la chambre est ornée d'une grande hache emmanchée, d'une crosse et d'une figure tronquée. La sépulture a dû être collective.
English translation
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History
Dolmen constructed between 4000 and 3900 BC. It is a passage dolmen leading to a chamber at the centre of the circular cairn. In the chamber, a sandstone slab is decorated with an idol adorned with crooks arranged symmetrically. The ceiling of the chamber is decorated with a large hafted axe, a crook and a truncated figure. The burial must have been collective.
Nearby in the register
- Grand menhir de Men-er-Grahmenhirunder 1 mi
- Tumulustumulusunder 1 mi
- Nouveau cimetièrecimetièreunder 1 mi
- Menhir couché dit Men-Bronsomenhirunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.