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A number of the Places with France and also Britain Where Typical monuments of your Later Rock as well as Bronze A long time Have been located
Since we pass in the previously time periods on the neolithic, the actual customs and also processes regarding time of the forefathers become more varied and complicated; the actual weapons, accessories in addition to accessories are located throughout larger number along with pretty much widespread geographic syndication in addition to demonstrate a persistantly raising diverseness connected with sort and efficiency involving design. Most of these characters will still be much more obvious at the outset of the particular bronze age group, that's reasonably towards the very first constraint from the ancient time. Within the after prehistoric times, this developing culture along with, inside of a determine, civilization, manufactured this kind of advancement and became hence diverse as to require their particular division in addition to explanation in distinctive groups, as both versions demands unique research.
In our limited paper, I've constricted me personally to the small consideration in the gemstone monuments of your delayed rock and bronze age groups, which are located in a lot of aspects of the world, and in addition have confined it to your of the very most well-known teams within to the north Italy along with the southern part of The united kingdom.
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At Carnac, in Brittany, and in the neighboring region is the greatest group in the world of these stone monuments. In one field at Carnac, in eight or more parallel rows, are over 1,100 standing stones or menhirs, while two other groups near by furnish similar numbers, besides a great number of dolmens with stone circles and tumuli. On Wiltshire Downs there are said to be over 1,000 tumuli, which,, although at first sight seem to be mere mounds of earth, are really megalithic monuments in their more complete form. On Salisbury Plain is the perfect and well known monument of Stonehenge, with over three hundred tumuli within a radius of three miles.
The monuments of Europe have been divided into nine classes, if we follow the classification given in Brittany.
1. Menhirs, meaning, in Breton, 'long stones,' single untrimmed stones placed upright.
2. Alignments, groups of menhirs placed in one or several lines.
3. Lechs, menhirs which have been trimmed, having generally engraved crosses upon their sides, and which are so comparatively recent as. to be hardly worthy of consideration as compared with the other prehistoric monuments.
4. Cromlechs, meaning 'circle places,' groups of menhirs arranged to form circles; although in Cheap Nike Blazers England this term is erroneously used to denote a dolmen or other stone monument.5. Dolmens, signifying 'table stones' consisting of a number of menhirs called supports, placed close together to form a rectangle, open at one end and covered by one or more table stones.
6. Covered passages, two lines of parallel menhirs or supports covered by table stones.
7. Stone cists, composed of flat stones forming small closed chambers in the nature of stone coffins.
8. Tumuli, artificial mounds of earth called in England ' barrows/ either oblong or round.
9. Galgals, artificial mounds formed of small stones.
The single standing stone or menhir is probably the oldest formMenhir, Avebury Circle, Wiltshire.
all these monuments. Very rude peoples would soon naturally employ it for purposes of designation to mark the grave of a chief or a spot become in some way sacred or important. Then a slab was placed across two or more uprights when an interment took place, and we have the beginning of the dolmen, which later developed into a more or less elaborate chamber, with or without vestibule or covered passage leading to it or auxiliary chambers connected with it; and finally the whole became covered with a mound of earth or small stones, and may have been surmounted by a menhir.
It has been said that the complete megalithic monument consisted of a stone chamber or dolmen covered with a mound, and the wholeThe Great Menhir, Lockmariaquer, Brittany.
by a menhir. In Brittany always, and probably generally, if not always, elsewhere, the dolmen was covered with a mound of earth or small stones. Those dolmens which stand exposed have probably had the earth removed by natural or artificial agencies. In Brittany many of the dolmens show no trace of mounds, standing bare upon the surface of the ground; but it is known that the soil has been removed by the peasants to spread upon their fields, the soil in this part of France being scanty, and the mounds furnishing an available supply. Many of the dolmens and covered passages are still partly underground, the whole of the tumuli not having been removed.
The menhirs vary greatly in size, from a small stone, not over two feet high, to larger ones many times that dimension, and weighing many tons. The greatest of all menhirs is the 'Great Stone' or 'Grand Menhir' at Locmariaquer, in Brittany. It is no longer standing, and is broken into several pieces, but was 70 feet high and weighed 300 tons.
The lechs are considered to be comparatively recent, for all these stone monuments, even in the same region, do not belong to the same period, some dating as far back as the stone age, while others can claim no greater antiquity than the age of bronze or even than a still later time.
The dolmen may be a simple chamber or a number of connecting chambers, and may open directly or may be preceded by a gallery or covered passage of varying length, but it is always open at one end. The Nike Huarache Uk covered passage or alle couverte may terminate in a small chamber, made by partitioning off the end of the passage by means of one or more menhirs or supports, so that there would seem to be no sharp line of distinction between the dolmen and the covered passage, each perhaps at times being a modification of the other.
The dolmen seems to be always sepulchral and, as the final resting place of the earthly remains of a chief or a line of important rulers, it must have been regarded as sacred and an object of veneration. At all events it was covered with an elaborate tumulus.
