Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
tumulus du Réuniou
DatedEst. 5000–3000 BCE
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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
The megalithic mound known as Tumulus du Réuniou lies in Berrien, France. Its entries are Wikidata item Q22996306; the position in the catalogue is 48.4085° N, 3.7485° W.
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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.
The full article
About tumulus du Réuniou
This kind of monument hereSources for this section
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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. Further down this page, About this kind of monument gives the whole of “Low Countries and French barrows”.
DatingSources for this section
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Typological estimate, not a date for this site: monuments of this kind in this region are normally dated 5000 BCE to 3000 BCE. The range comes from what is known about megalithic mound monuments in France; nothing measured on this site itself is on record, so it may be younger or older than the range suggests.
The range rests on this regional background (source: the Wikipedia article “Tumulus”): 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.
Landscape and neighbours
Within 10 km lie 9 other catalogued sites (0 within 1 km, 3 within 5 km); 1 of them is also classed as megalithic mound. It is one of 1 megalithic mound records among the 3 sites catalogued in Berrien, France.
The closest catalogued sites are menhir de Kerampeulven (3.2 km south, menhir); Menhir de la mare aux sangliers (4.4 km south, menhir); dolmen de Quinoualc'h (4.5 km south-west, dolmen); Tumulii de Kerelcun (5.7 km west, megalithic mound). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
Wikidata lists the site with the heritage status monument historique inscrit. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q22996306), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Access varies from open common land to private fields; check local access rules, ask where needed, and take care not to damage the monument.
How this page was madeSources for this section
Sources for this section
This page was built automatically from Wikidata (CC0), the heritage register named above and the regional article “Low Countries and French barrows”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), plus distances and counts computed from the catalogue coordinates. It contains no AI-written text.
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
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
- 48°24′31″ N, 3°44′54″ WFor a GPS or map app: 48.40853, -3.74846
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.
menhir de Kerampeulven2800–1800 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)Menhir de la mare aux sangliers2800–1800 BCE
dolmen de Quinoualc'h4000–3000 BCE
Tumulii de Kerelcun5000–3000 BCE
Menhir du Cloître (Huelgoat)2800–1800 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)menhir de Kerelcun2800–1800 BCE
Alignement de Leïtan (Brennilis)3300–2500 BCE
Les Deux Menhirs2800–1800 BCE
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Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
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- 01Wikidata Q22996306wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- menhir de Kerampeulven3.1 km S
- Menhir de la mare aux sangliers4.4 km S
- dolmen de Quinoualc'h4.5 km SW
- Tumulii de Kerelcun5.7 km W
- Menhir du Cloître (Huelgoat)6.5 km SW
- menhir de Kerelcun6.8 km SW
- Alignement de Leïtan (Brennilis)7.6 km SW
- Les Deux Menhirs7.8 km N
- Ti ar Boutiged9.0 km SW
- Lit de Saint-Eneour12 km W
Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
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