Approximately 30 cooking hearths identified at Kerlescan, including within its stone circle — plus 20+ hearths north of Le Mane! Similar features at Montauban date to 4,900-4,000 BCE and Plouharnel to 4,670-4,250 BCE. The team also discovered a previously unrecognized stone circle at Kerlescan, drawing comparisons to Er Lannic island's circle where hearths and cists suggest ritual-domestic overlap.
Cooking hearths clustered within Carnac Stones stone circles suggest Middle Neolithic activity
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Key facts
- Approximately 30 high-intensity magnetic anomalies (cooking hearths) identified at Kerlescan, including within the Kerlescan stone circle
- Additional 20+ hearths found in grassland north of the Le Mane alignments
- Hearths at the Montauban industrial zone south of Carnac Stones are dated to 4,900-4,000 BCE (early Middle Neolithic)
- Similar features at Plouharnel to the northwest, associated with rows of standing stones, dated 4,670-4,250 BCE
- Kerlescan contains a previously unrecognized stone circle/enclosure
- Comparison drawn to Er Lannic island stone circle in the Gulf of Morbihan, where hearths were found alongside cists suggesting combined domestic and ritual activity
- Authors refrained from determining whether hearths represent ceremonial feasting or pragmatic workforce cooking areas
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Sources
Kerlescan | Mégalithesarcheologie.culture.gouv.fr
However, it is known that it covers a set of stone "hearths" and "cists" circled by small standing blocks. The great menhir known as "the Manio Giant ...
Kerlescan Alignements, Bretagne:Morbihan (56)megalithic.co.uk
Massive set of stone Alignments north of Carnac, in Morbihan, Brittany. Condition: 4.22 Ambience: 4.56 Access: 4.44. Thirteen rows with 555 stones start from ...
Alignements de Kerlescanthemodernantiquarian.com
All of the 3 main alignments have small collections of curious stone settings. The one in the left of this shot would bear an outing by itself.
Archaeological Prospectiononlinelibrary.wiley.com
In the Kerlescan alignments, low- to medium-intensity anomalies are six to seven times more numerous than within the stone circle. As previously ...
The Kerlescan standing stones at Carnaccarnactourism.co.uk
The Kerlescan site is the smallest and best preserved of the Carnac Alignments. This field of menhirs is made up of 13 rows of 555 stones.
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