🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen de Mané Lud
Early Neolithic (c.4000–3600 BCE) · Carn / Morbihan Neolithic
Locmariaquer passage dolmen (10 m) with trapezoidal chamber (5 m) and reused grand-menhir capstone bearing axe carving.
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🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Hallstatt C (Iron Age I Armorican) · Armorican Hallstatt (Brittany enclos community)
Armorican bog causeway to islet settlement in Enez Krno mire: 52-m Iron Age plank–hurdlehybrid (620 BCE).
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.4200–4000 BCE) · Armorican Early Neolithic (Barnenez tradition)
Tidal-islet stepped cairn (25 m) with three radiating passage graves — early Neolithic (c.4200 BCE) off Ploudalmézeau.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.4000–3600 BCE) · Carn / Morbihan Neolithic
Locmariaquer passage dolmen (10 m) with trapezoidal chamber (5 m) and reused grand-menhir capstone bearing axe carving.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
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 · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (c.5000–3500 BCE) · Carn / Tumulus Culture (Early Armorican Neolithic)
Giant 125 m × 12 m tumulus covering passage grave (c.4500 BCE) with 39 jadeite axes — Brittany's largest mound at Carnac.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Tumulus culture)
Tumulus-capped passage grave (6.5 m passage) on Kercado ridge with hafted axe carving — Carnac tumulus evolution exemplar.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
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
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
Early to Middle Neolithic (c.4500–3000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic/Chasséen-derived Atlantic)
Ménec (Early–Middle Neolithic c.4500–3000 BCE) is the westernmost and largest Carnac alignment: 11 parallel rows 1,167 m long with 1,099 menhirs descending from a western cromlech (egg-shaped 100 ×…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.4000–3600 BCE) · Carn / Atlantic Neolithic (Morbihan)
Locmariaquer passage dolmen (8 m passage) near Table des Marchands — chamber with engraved axe and crook art.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic inland megalithic
Inland Brittany's 400-stone alignment — 500 m rows of quartzite menhirs (to 4.5 m) buried under forest, restored 1990s.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Western Brittany Neolithic (Océan Atlantic Megalithic)
Crozon's triple stone rows — 72 menhirs (to 2.1 m) in three 200 m parallel alignments near Camaret.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (~4700–4000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic)
Three interlinked monuments on the Gulf of Morbihan: the shattered 20.6-m Grand Menhir Brisé – heaviest moved stone in Europe at 280 tonnes before earthquake toppling; the Table des Marchand passage…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic
Passage grave near Locmariaquer, Morbihan, part of Locmariaquer-Carnac megalithic concentration, c.4000 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
Early to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic
Tidal double stone circle on Er Lannic island, Gulf of Morbihan, half-submerged, 4500 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 · Armorican Neolithic
Tallest menhir in Brittany — 9.3 m rose granite monolith near Dol-de-Bretagne, c.5000 BCE.
