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Chambered cairns in France · Mysteria

CategoriesChambered cairns

Chambered cairns

Stone mounds raised around a burial chamber reached along a passage.

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🇫🇷 France

🇫🇷 France · Megalith

Gavrinis Passage Tomb

Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic / Chassey-Cerny

Island passage tomb in Gulf of Morbihan with 14 m passage lined with richly carved orthostats, c.4200 BCE.

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🇫🇷 France · Megalith

Dolmen de la Pierre Virante

Middle Neolithic · Vendée Atlantic

Paired dolmens (Virante I and II) near Soullans, Vendée, shared mound, c.3500 BCE.