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The dolmen of MOUGAU BIHAN

The funeral monument is approximately dates back to 3000 BC, also known as "The mound of the giants"

This dolmen was covered by a mound now disappeared.

The walls of 14 meters, directed NORTH-SOUTH form 2 lines parallel from 1 to 1,30 meters.

The ceiling horizontal is made of 4 flagstones of cover, the fifth does not cover the funerary room, but the final cell in the south.

The entry, in north is marked by a pillar placed in oblique and appreciably narrowing the passage towards the principal room.

The flagstone of bedside is decorated, in its center of a polished axe and of its handle in the shape of stick. The representation of the goddess Mother and a pallet on the pillar of the entry, points out certain Neolithic idols.

DESCRIPTIVE SHEMA

1 : Two 14 meters length walls and distant from 1 to 1,30 meters

2 : Ceiling of 4 flagstones

3: Fifth flagstone of the final cell in the south

4: Entry in north

5: Pave bedside decorated with a polished axe.

ORNEMENTS

a : Pillar located at the entry, figuration of the Goddess Mother in the form of two pairs of centres, and representation of a pallet.

b: Pallets at subparallel edges, round, bilobate end at the base, fine and long silk.

c: Asymmetrical pallet, one of the edges is prolonged by silk.

d: Asymmetrical pallet, one of the edges is prolonged by silk.

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