Allée couverte de Kermaout

Allée couverte de Kermaout is a gallery grave on the commune of Bannalec in the département of Finistère, France. Its date is estimated from its type to 4500 BCE to 3300 BCE. Gallery graves were built mainly in the Neolithic and are entered directly, without an antechamber or passage in front.

The monument is a covered alley set into a bank and oriented northwest/southeast. It is built chiefly from micaschist slabs and extends for 8 m. Its covering table measures 2,50 m by 1 m and is 0,20 to 0,40 m thick. Six pillars support the structure, while the height beneath the slab does not exceed 0,85 m.

Allée couverte de Kermaout was first mentioned in 1877, when it was already partly ruined. It has been listed as a monument historique since 4 November 1975. A block of quartz near the eastern entrance appears not to form part of the monument.

A local tradition says that the site was frequented by lutins, and the field containing it is named Park-Korrigan, meaning the parcel of the Korrigans. More generally, gallery graves were often community burial places, probably used for people from the same family or hamlet, and are found in the Loire valley of France, south-west Great Britain and Ireland.

Allée couverte de Kermaout is a gallery grave (allée couverte) in Bannalec, France. Wikidata describes it as: gallery grave in Bannalec, 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 Kermaout", shown in the original language.