Ti Ar Boudiged (Ty Ar Boudiquet or La Maison des Fées), Brennilis, Finistère, Breizh.This is the r
Ti Ar Boudiged (Ty Ar Boudiquet or La Maison des Fées), Brennilis, Finistère, Breizh. This is the remain of a rare Neolithic dolmen in V form, still mostly buried under its mound. It has been dated to about 3000 BC. This kind of dolmen is thought to be a transitional stage between dolmens with entry passage (dolmen à couloir) and allée couvertes. It is of an oval shape, approximately 17 metres long by 6 metres wide, and still up to 3 metres in heigh. Unfortunately the back end is cut by a wall and a field boundary. The chamber has a South-East orientation and it is about 15 metres long and varies in widths from about 1 metre at the entrance to nearly 3 at full width. The height also varied from about a metre to 1.75. The chamber opens at 125°. The main part of the chamber is covered with three massive capstones, and has within it a standing stone which doesn’t quite reach the roof. Perhaps a stele, as found in the more ancient burial chambers of the dolmens à couloir, but not smoothed and sculpted, or perhaps the remain of an internal wall. Outside the chamber, the mound is almost complete, and even comes with most of its surrounding peristalith of stones. -- source link