🇫🇷 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.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen des Pierres Folles (Commequiers)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Vendée Atlantic
18 m gallery grave (allée couverte) near Commequiers, Vendée, Pierre Folle road, 3000 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Alignements de Kerlescan at Carnac
Middle to Late Neolithic (c.4800–3500 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Carnac tradition)
Eastern Carnac alignment: 555 stones in 13 rows (880 m) ending in semicircular cromlech and 6.5 m Manio giant.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Alignements de Kermario at Carnac
Middle to Late Neolithic (c.4800–3500 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Carnac tradition)
Largest Carnac alignment — 982 menhirs in 10 rows (1,120 m) between Ménec and Kerlescan with Kermario dolmen inside.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Carnac Stones
Middle to Late Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Over 3,000 standing stones in three major alignments (Ménec, Kermario, Kerlescan) extending 4 km, plus dolmens and tumuli. Earliest European megalithic region (Antiquity 2025).
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen de Kerguntuil (Trégastel)
Late Neolithic · Armorican Late Neolithic
Gallery dolmen (allée couverte) at Trégastel, Côte de Granit Rose (c. 3200–2600 BCE), 11 m long gallery in pink granite with 16 orthostats and capstones, entrance flanked by portal stones, tumulus…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Menhir de Kerloas
Late Neolithic (c.5000–4000 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Brittany)
Europe's tallest upright menhir (9.5 m, 150 t) — Brittany granite giant with twin basal bosses, lightning-shorn.
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Tumulus de Mont-Iouarn (Ploumilliau)
Middle to Late Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Passage mound tumulus at Ploumilliau (c. 3500 BCE), 30 m diameter, 5 m high, with granite passage and chamber, excavated 1950s revealing Neolithic pottery and human remains, overlooking Leguer valley.
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Tumulus de Tumiac
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic / Carnac
Large passage tomb tumulus at Arzon, Rhuys Peninsula (c. 3800–3200 BCE), 50 m diameter, 15 m high, with polygonal chamber and corridor, yielded jadeite axes, callaïs beads and elite burial goods…