page_title: Carnac stones
section_title: Crucuno
hierarchical_section_title: Carnac stones / Dolmens / Crucuno
caption_attribution_description: English: Crucuno dolmen, in Plouharnel (Morbihan, Brittany, France). This is thought to be a burial chamber. It has a 40 ton cap stone on the top. It is dated 4000BC. This was originally located in the 19th century by reading engravings of a very long passage. This information is noted in a sign posted at the site itself. Français&#160;: Le dolmen de Crucuno, à Plouharnel (Morbihan, Bretagne, France). Généralement considéré comme une chambre funéraire, il est recouvert d’une dalle de pierre de 40 tonnes. Daté de 4000 av. J.-C., il n’a été localisé qu’au XIXe siècle en lisant les inscriptions gravées d’un très long passage. Cette information est notée par un signe portée sur le site lui-même.
context_page_description: The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites in Brittany in northwestern France, consisting of stone alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs. More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local granite and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany, and form the largest such collection in the world. Most of the stones are within the Breton village of Carnac, but some to the east are within La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BCE, but some may date to as early as 4500 BCE.
  Although the stones date from 4500 BCE, modern myths were formed which resulted from 1st century AD Roman and later Christian occupations. A Christian myth associated with the stones held that they were pagan soldiers in pursuit of Pope Cornelius when he turned them to stone. Brittany has its own local versions of the Arthurian cycle. Local tradition claims that the reason they stand in such perfectly straight lines is that they are a Roman legion turned to stone by Merlin.
context_section_description: A "classic" dolmen, with a 40-tonne (44-short-ton), 7.6-metre (24 ft 11 in) tablestone resting on pillars roughly 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) high. Prior to 1900, it was connected by a passage making it 24 m (79 ft) long.
caption: The Crucuno dolmen
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