Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
tumulus de Mané-Klud-er-Yer
DatedEst. 5000–3000 BCE
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Overview
About this site
Overview
The Tumulus de Mané-Klud-er-Yer is a megalithic mound at Carnac, Morbihan, France. It is roughly quadrangular, about 15 m × 30 m, and three menhirs form part of the same group. The monument dates to the Neolithic; the catalogue gives about 5000 to 3000 BCE as a typological estimate.
A dolmen, the Dolmen de Kluder-Yer, stands about ten metres to the south.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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tumulus de Mané-Klud-er-Yer
The monument lies about 180 m north-west of the departmental road RD768 and about 150 m north-east of the houses of the hamlet of Ty-er-Go.
SettingSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Tumulus de Mané-Klud-er-YerCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Tumulus de Mané-Klud-er-YerCC BY-SA 4.0
The monument lies about 180 m north-west of the departmental road RD768 and about 150 m north-east of the houses of the hamlet of Ty-er-Go.
DescriptionSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Tumulus de Mané-Klud-er-YerCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Tumulus de Mané-Klud-er-YerCC BY-SA 4.0
The mound is a roughly quadrangular tumulus of about 15 m × 30 m. Three menhirs belong to the same group. Immediately beside it, about ten metres to the south, stands the dolmen of Kluder-Yer.
NameSources for this section
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The name is Breton and means "hen roost" (perchoir à poules).
Later historySources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Tumulus de Mané-Klud-er-YerCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Tumulus de Mané-Klud-er-YerCC BY-SA 4.0
A classification order of 9 May 1938 is recorded for the dolmen. The monument was cleared of the vegetation covering it in 2012.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Low Countries and French barrows
Round barrows are found across the Low Countries and France. Many were raised in the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age. The Bell Beaker phenomenon of the late third millennium BCE brought a new burial rite to western Europe: individual burials, often under a tumulus and with weapons, in contrast to the collective, weaponless burials of the earlier Neolithic. The Dutch hunebedden, the megalithic tombs of the north, belong to the earlier tradition and are described in their own article.
Round barrows are hemispherical mounds raised over a central burial, which may be an inhumation or a cremation placed in a vessel. Barrows were often reused: later graves were cut into the mound, sometimes long after the first burial, and many attract satellite burials. In France and Belgium, tumuli of the Hallstatt period belong to the early Iron Age, from about 800 BCE; from phase B of the Hallstatt sequence, tumulus burial becomes common and cremation predominates.
Dating relies on pottery and metalwork, and on radiocarbon dating where a mound has been dug. Many have been ploughed down, so the Atlas map reflects where mounds survived and were recorded as much as where they were built.
When visiting, look for the surrounding ditch or kerb, and for a later disturbance at the centre where a later grave or an old digging has cut the mound.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Tumulus, Wikipedia: Round barrow, Wikipedia: Bell Beaker culture, Wikipedia: Hallstatt culture, Wikipedia: Hunebed · CC BY-SA 4.0
From the article
Dated moments in the story
- 1938
Le dolmen est classé au titre des monuments historiques par arrêté du 9 mai 1938. Il est dégagé de la végétation qui le recouvre en 2012
Source
See it in 3D
An interpretive reconstruction of the monument, standing on the real ground at its exact point, under the sun for that place and season. Drag to look around it.
The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 5000–3000 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic mounds in France; this site has not been dated itself. The Neolithic Saint-Michel de Carnac tumulus was built between 5,000 and 3,400 BC and the Bougon tumuli between 4,500 and 3,000 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
France
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 47°37′09″ N, 3°04′58″ WFor a GPS or map app: 47.61908, -3.08278
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Dolmen von Kluder-Yer4000–3000 BCE
menhirs de Lann-Grand-Viallarec2800–1800 BCE- Stone row (alignment)alignement de Grandvellarec3300–2500 BCE
- Stone row (alignment)alignement de Crucuny3300–2500 BCE
- Stone row (alignment)alignement de Kériaval3300–2500 BCE
- Menhir (standing stone)deux menhirs de Kériaval2800–1800 BCE
Keriaval gallery grave4500–3300 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)trois menhirs de Kériaval2800–1800 BCE
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Sources
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2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q22927480wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Dolmen von Kluder-Yer<0.1 km E
- menhirs de Lann-Grand-Viallarec<0.1 km N
- alignement de Grandvellarec0.2 km N
- alignement de Crucuny0.2 km E
- alignement de Kériaval0.2 km SE
- deux menhirs de Kériaval0.2 km SE
- Keriaval gallery grave0.4 km S
- trois menhirs de Kériaval0.4 km S
- dolmen de Mané-Kerioned0.5 km SW
- Tumulus de Crucuny0.7 km E
Credit
Text, licence and sources
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