allée couverte de Ros-Vras

Ros-Vras is a gallery grave, or allée couverte, at Landebaëron in the Côtes-d'Armor department of France. It is a megalithic tomb of the type commonly built in the Neolithic, with a main gallery entered directly and no front chamber or passage.

The monument is partly ruined. It is 14 m long, and seven orthostats, or upright stone slabs, still remain together with two covering slabs. Gallery graves of this general type may have been covered by an earthen mound or a cairn, but the surviving features of Ros-Vras are the principal physical evidence now present.

The dating given for Ros-Vras is 4500 BCE to 3300 BCE, based on typological estimate. The structure was classified as a historic monument in 1956. It is also discussed in Loïc Langouët's Les mégalithes de l'arrondissement de Guingamp, published by Institut Culturel de Bretagne in 2006.

Gallery graves were community burial sites, probably holding members of a family or hamlet and helping to reinforce community ties. Examples are found in France's Loire valley, south-west Great Britain and Ireland. More specific information about the burials, builders, names or traditions connected with Ros-Vras is not provided.

allée couverte de Ros-Vras is a gallery grave (allée couverte) in Landebaëron, France. A typological estimate: 4500 BCE to 3300 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Ros-Vras", shown in the original language.