New excavations at Gavrinis

Roux, Charles-Tanguy Le

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00057240

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“…This has important implications for an understanding of the purpose of the solstice alignment, suggesting that it was created to nourish the dead rather than the living. Hidden decoration is known from the Boyne valley and Brittany (eg, Eogan 1998;Le Roux 1985), while solar alignments are known from the Boyne Valley (Newgrange, midwinter sunrise; Patrick 1974), Orkney (Maes Howe, midwinter sunset; MacKie 1988), and the Channel Islands (Le Hougue Bie, spring equinox; Patton et al 1999). THE PREHISTORIC SOCIETY 264 Fig.…”

Section: Rituals Of Deathmentioning

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Bryn Celli Ddu Passage Tomb, Anglesey: Alignment, Construction, Date, and Ritual

Burrow¹

2010

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Bryn Celli Ddu is one of only two developed passage tombs in Wales, and has occupied a pivotal place in narratives of this region since the publication of excavations in the 1920s by W.J. Hemp. The construction sequence at the site has been at the centre of debate on several occasions with previous models raising important issues about the sequence of major monument types (notably the henge and the passage tomb) and the inter-regional links of the tomb's builders. This paper presents a new interpretation of the site's construction history, drawing on several sources, including: the recent demonstration that the tomb is aligned on the midsummer sunrise; Hemp's unpublished archive; and the results of a radiocarbon dating programme. The result is a two phase model which shows the tomb to have been built between 3074 and 2956 calbc, and which sheds fresh light on the ritual practices of the community which built it.

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Section: Rituals Of Deathmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bryn Celli Ddu Passage Tomb, Anglesey: Alignment, Construction, Date, and Ritual

Burrow¹

2010

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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“…Estas lousas con decoración antropomorfica en principio asócianse a un uso similar ao dunha estatua exenta ou un menhir, que nalgúns casos, reempregaríase para formar parte da cámara , como así o propoñen, por exemplo, C.T. LE ROUX, (1985e 2003 na Bretaña francesa, F. FUENTES e R. FÁBREGAS (1994) para o caso de Os Campiños, R. BALBÍN e P. en Soto, no SW da Península Ibérica ou M.V. GOMES, (1994) en Portugal.…”

Section: Valoración Das Lousas Gravadas E O Seu Estado Patri-monialunclassified

Achado dunhas lousas con arte megalítico en Fonte Tourón Lalín, Pontevedra

Domínguez¹,

Mañana-Borrazás²,

Seoane-Veiga³

2009

Cuad. estud. gallegos

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ResumoNo contexto dos traballos arqueolóxicos previos á execución dunha obra (unha liña eléctrica de media tensión), localizáronse unhas lousas con gravados na zona de Fonte Tourón, en Lalín. Trátase dunhas lousas que presentan uns gravados de estilo propio do megalitismo e que agora forman parte dos lindes das fincas nas que se atopan. As características destes gravados, sumado á propia forma das pedras, a un contexto onde se localizan outras mámoas e sobre todo, á información dos veciños que vinculan estas pedras cunha mámoa desfeita fai uns anos, apuntan a que formaron parte dun monumento megalítico, e que moi probablemente se trata dos esteos dunha cámara. AbstractIn an archaeological context before a works execution took place (an electric half tension line), some engraved gravestones were found around the area of Fonte Touron, Council of Lalín. These gravestones have engravings representative of megalithism and nowadays they became boundary markers of the yards in which they are. The features of the engravings, besides the very shape of the stones and the context where other mounds are located, and above everything, the information provided by local neighbors that relate the stones of this mound to one set apart some years ago, points that they were part of a megalithic monument, and it is highly probable that they were the orthostats of a chamber.

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“…Impressed pottery of southern type at La Tranche sur Mer on the Vendéen coast (5640-4860 Cal BC: Gif 4372; 5042; 5043) and the distribution of 'armatures du Chatelet' mark the Garonne valley and coastal route to Morbihan (Scarre 1992). Additionally at least one menhir illustration betrays a southern origin -the animals on the Gavrinis/Tables des Marchands stone (Le Roux 1985). The size of their horns strongly suggests that they are ibex, animals which dominated the immediately pre-Neolithic faunal record in the French Pyrennes (Bahn, 1985, 192).…”

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“…Nevertheless axe/plough images are so strikingly similar, except in the shape of their pendant 'blades' (Shee Twohig 1981, fig. 5;Le Roux 1985, fig. 1), that it is difficult to escape the conclusion that, here also, we are observing carvings of an actual artefact type; presumably one which was functionally adaptable but largely organic and hence unknown.…”

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The Origins and Implications of the Breton Buckler Motif

Loveday¹

1999

Oxford J Archaeology

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The 'buckler' motif appears isolated in the naturalistic milieu of the earliest Breton art but there are problems with a symbolic interpretation. If instead it is considered in naturalistic terms it can be demonstrated to bear a close resemblance to a form of grain store made of straw rope that was used in parts of Ireland until this century. The likelihood of above ground grain storage in the Neolithic is considered and the potential archaeological evidence for such features is reviewed. Finally reasons are advanced for the motif being centred in the Morbihan region.

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New excavations at Gavrinis

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Bryn Celli Ddu Passage Tomb, Anglesey: Alignment, Construction, Date, and Ritual

Bryn Celli Ddu Passage Tomb, Anglesey: Alignment, Construction, Date, and Ritual

Achado dunhas lousas con arte megalítico en Fonte Tourón Lalín, Pontevedra

The Origins and Implications of the Breton Buckler Motif

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