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Tagscarnac
8 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇫🇷 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
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 (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
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.
