Allée couverte de Coët Correc — Gallery grave of Coët Correc, Mûr-de-Bretagne village, Côtes-d'Armor, France

Gallery grave (allée couverte)

Allée couverte de Coët Correc

France

DatedEst. 4500–3300 BCE

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L'allée couverte de Coët Correc, située sur la commune de Mûr-de-Bretagne dans le département des Côtes-d'Armor, est une sépulture mégalithique, classée monument historique.

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The Allée couverte de Coët Correc is a megalithic gallery grave at Mûr-de-Bretagne in the Côtes-d'Armor department of France. It has been listed as a historic monument since 8 novembre 1956.

The covered gallery is 10,50 m long and 1,40 m wide on average. About twenty upright slate slabs line it. Six covering slabs remained in 1965, but only two are now in place; the other four were moved beside the access path. A side entrance carved like a porthole opens at the south-east end, between two notched slabs, and is preceded by a passage bordered by parallel slabs about 1,50 m long.

The gallery once stood within a burial mound about 24 m long and 8 m wide, edged with upright slabs. Excavation on its southern side exposed an unusual filled stone-lined ditch, set at an angle to the gallery. The remains of a dry-stone calvary built around 1905 bridge the gallery at its western end.

Partial excavation by Abbé Collet in 1870 found a flint arrowhead, coarse pottery fragments and charcoal. Archaeological excavations in 1984-1985 revealed paving, a polished stone axe and fragments of a hemispherical bowl. The calvary was partly rebuilt afterwards.

No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Allée couverte de Coët Correc", shown in the original language.

Allée couverte de Coët Correc

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Allée couverte de Coët Correc is a gallery grave (allée couverte) in Mûr-de-Bretagne, France. Wikidata describes it as: gallery grave in Mûr-de-Bretagne, France. A typological estimate: 4500 BCE to 3300 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Allée couverte de Coët Correc", shown in the original language.