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- Title
New excavations at Gavrinis.
- Authors
Le Roux, Charles-Tanguy
- Abstract
Presents a summary of results from excavations on the cairn of Gavrinis, located on an island in the Morbihan Gulf in France, from 1979 to 1984. Description of the drystone facings; Interpretation of the figures of Kermorvan and Pen-Hap; Description of the decorated menhir found at the megalithic chambers of Gavrinis, La Table des Marchands and er-Vinglé Contention of the author that there was a coexistence and complementarity between menhirs and dolmens of megalithic architecture.
- Subjects
MORBIHAN Gulf (France); FRANCE; MEGALITHIC monuments; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; CAIRNS; MENHIRS; DOLMENS
- Publication
Antiquity, 1985, Vol 59, Issue 227, p183
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00057240