THE DOLMEN

 

The name derives from bretone dol, the table, and men, worked stone. Already the name door outside road: draft at all of stones worked but of single shapeless monoliths or places on the other to dry forming from four or more columns on which does not rest one crude and shapeless stone slab anch' it.

 

 

Several the functions attribuitegli: sepolcri, single or collectives, sacred places used after religious or propiziatori rituals, altars of cult; funerarie or rituali functions therefore.

 

 

Before what that he has hit to me of these monuments is their architectonic mostruosità, and yes that, if coevi of the menhir, their constructors had of the techniques already affinate for the working of the stone, because then that mostruosità? Because to my judgment it was intentional, those constructions, as the menhir, they had one function….