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10 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (c.4500–3900 BCE) · Carnac–Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Mané-er-Hroëk (Neolithic c.4500–3900 BCE) crowns the Mané-er-Hroëk hill 800 m northeast of Locmariaquer village, a 100-m long trapezoidal passage grave under a 25-m high?
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Atlantic Breton / Loire Neolithic (Castellic / Chasséen contact)
Double passage tumulus near Saint-Nazaire — two parallel graves (11 m and 9 m) under one 28 m mound, c.4300 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Three-phase promontory cairn (60 m) at Arzon with two superimposed passage graves and anthropomorphic art.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Armorican Early Neolithic
Oldest passage grave complex in Brittany — 72 m cairn with eleven parallel passage graves c.4850 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
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.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Western French Neolithic
Major passage dolmen near Rennes — 19.5 m passage of 45-tonne schist slabs, largest in Upper Brittany.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Atlantic Early Neolithic / Cerny
Necropolis of six tumuli A-F spanning 4800-3000 BCE, including oldest megalithic building in western France.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic
140 m Neolithic tumulus at Locmariaquer — longest in Brittany, part of Grand Menhir alignment.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic
Decorated passage grave at Locmariaquer with art linked to Gavrinis, beside the fallen 20.6 m Grand Menhir.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Loire Neolithic / Chambon group
Largest French dolmen — 23 m long passage of taf limestone slabs with 40-tonne capstones near Saumur.
