Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Tumulus von Mané-Becker-Noz
DatedEst. 5000–3000 BCE
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Overview
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Overview
The tumulus of Mané-Becker-Noz (also written Mané Becker Noz) lies south of Kergroix and Saint-Pierre-Quiberon on the Quiberon peninsula in the département of Morbihan, Brittany, France. It is a round mound with integral stones, about ten metres in diameter, and is a classified monument historique.
Stone cists containing human bones and grave goods were found in the mound in 1865. The catalogue gives a typological date of 5000 to 3000 BCE.
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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 von Mané-Becker-Noz
DescriptionSources for this section
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In 1911 Zacharie Le Rouzic recorded a round mound with a diameter of about ten metres and a height of 2.0 metres.
In 1865, during earthworks at the tumulus, human bones and grave goods were found in stone cists made of granite slabs.
ExcavationsSources for this section
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In 1865, during earthworks at the tumulus, human bones and grave goods were found in stone cists made of granite slabs. Abbé Lavenot, parish priest of Quiberon, wrote of the discovery that about 25 other stone chambers had been found on the mound in the previous 20 years. Gustave de Closmadeuc (1828-1918) subsequently found seven stone cists.
NameSources for this section
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The origin of the name Mané Becker Noz is explained as follows. A place called Mane-Beleg (in German, 'Berg des Priesters', hill of the priest) lies 150 metres from the burial mound, and executions took place there until 1795. The legend behind the name Mane Becker Noz (Breton noz, night) may derive from this.
ConservationSources for this section
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The tumulus has been registered as a monument historique since 1913.
ContextSources for this section
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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.
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
- 1795
Bis 1795 erfolgten dort Hinrichtungen.
Source - 1828
Von Gustave de Closmadeuc (1828–1918) wurden in der Folge sieben Steinkisten gefunden.
Source - 1865
1865 wurden bei Erdarbeiten am Tumulus menschliche Knochen und Grabbeigaben in Steinkisten aus Granitplatten gefunden.
Source - 1911
1911 ermittelte Zacharie Le Rouzic (1864–1939) einen Rundhügel mit einem Durchmesser von etwa zehn Metern und einer Höhe von 2,0 Metern.
Source - 1913
Der Tumulus ist seit 1913 als Monument historique eingetragen.
Source
See it in 3D
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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°30′46″ N, 3°08′25″ WFor a GPS or map app: 47.51278, -3.14028
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
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Sources
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2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q22927600wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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