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What are these strange rocks heaps?

What are these strange rocks heaps?

 • This construction is a dolmen, but it also has other names coming

• This construction is a dolmen, but it also has other names coming from various old origins and whose list would be useless. • It’s a structure made of 3 or more massive upright stones supporting a large flat other one.

In English you distinguish 3 terms. You have: - “Menhirs”: A large upright stone,

In English you distinguish 3 terms. You have: - “Menhirs”: A large upright stone, that stands alone or arranged with others, for example in circle. - “Megaliths”: A massive stone which has been used to construct a structure or monument, put with others stones or even alone. - And ”Dolmens”: As seen before, a single-chamber construction.

A 4 th word, “Megalithic”, is used to describe: - Either a stone alone

A 4 th word, “Megalithic”, is used to describe: - Either a stone alone forming itself a monument like menhirs, - Or an entire structure like dolmens and other such monuments.

 • Most of the dolmens date from the Prehistory in western Europe, during

• Most of the dolmens date from the Prehistory in western Europe, during the early Neolithic that is ~ from 4000 BC to 3000 BC, but there a few of them that were built before and also after this period. Dolmens were mainly built in western Europe by some civilizations, but some of them also have been constructed in many different places around the world like in eastern Asia.

A dolmen was built with this basic scheme: - The principal single-chamber that is

A dolmen was built with this basic scheme: - The principal single-chamber that is usually what remains today, - Then there could be a previous and smaller chamber called antechamber, - A corridor make the link to outside, - And, finally the entire construction was covered by a mix of stones and earth forming a little hill that we call tumulus. Imagine how much this construction was a great work, with the really rudimentary tools of this period; and everything without any help from Chuck Norris !

Dolmens were built as sepulchral monuments and the same one could be used for

Dolmens were built as sepulchral monuments and the same one could be used for many generations. We know this as we found bones and objects from different periods in the same tomb. But we think that such tombs were reserved only for special (higher) people in the society, because where there were big villages we sometimes found only a few bones. The many different megalith constructions have large kinds of use, not all sepulchral, and have a lot of various appearance. Here you have a view of some of the Megalithic that we could find in Scotland… Glencoe, Scotland

Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle, Orkney

Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle, Orkney

Stones of Stenness Standing Stones, Orkney

Stones of Stenness Standing Stones, Orkney

Stones of Stenness Standing Stones, Orkney

Stones of Stenness Standing Stones, Orkney

Dwarfie Stane Rock-cut Tomb, Orkney

Dwarfie Stane Rock-cut Tomb, Orkney

Grain Earth House, Orkney

Grain Earth House, Orkney

Skara Brae Settlement, Orkney

Skara Brae Settlement, Orkney

Stane o' Quoybune Standing Stone, Orkney

Stane o' Quoybune Standing Stone, Orkney

Achavanich Stone Circle, Caithness

Achavanich Stone Circle, Caithness

Balnuaran of Clava (The Clava Cairns) Clava Cairns, Inverness

Balnuaran of Clava (The Clava Cairns) Clava Cairns, Inverness

Corrimony 'Clava' type Cairn, Central Highlands (Glen Urquhart)

Corrimony 'Clava' type Cairn, Central Highlands (Glen Urquhart)

Barpa Langais Chambered Tomb, North Uist

Barpa Langais Chambered Tomb, North Uist

Baluachraig Cup and Ring marks / Rock Art, Argyll

Baluachraig Cup and Ring marks / Rock Art, Argyll

Kilmichael Glassary Rock Art, Argyll

Kilmichael Glassary Rock Art, Argyll

Finlaggan Loch Standing Stone (possible Avenue / Stone Circle), Islay

Finlaggan Loch Standing Stone (possible Avenue / Stone Circle), Islay

Applecross, Scotland. I hope you enjoyed this view over dolmens, menhirs and megaliths, and

Applecross, Scotland. I hope you enjoyed this view over dolmens, menhirs and megaliths, and you didn’t fall asleep. Congratulations !!! Now I should tell you where I found my inspiration, by respect for the pictures and information owners…

Thanks to: www. megalithic. co. uk http: //home. primus. ca www. ispireland. net/ireland. htm

Thanks to: www. megalithic. co. uk http: //home. primus. ca www. ispireland. net/ireland. htm http: //picasaweb. google. com/ www. vallhalla. eu/aspnet http: //www. pbase. com/hwatt/scotland www. wikipedia. org

Our Master Pen Of Chaos For his “Ballintore Jigs Instrumental”

Our Master Pen Of Chaos For his “Ballintore Jigs Instrumental”

Finally, and the most important, great thanks to: My Grand-Mother, because I love her

Finally, and the most important, great thanks to: My Grand-Mother, because I love her and her wonderful chocolate ! Thanks to “La-dame-de-la-cafèt’”, because she prepares delicious tuna sandwiches ! And thanks to Chuck Norris, because he invented the automaticwaffle-cooker-for-the-blue-socksironing !

Big and friendly kisses to the ones who have read my presentation until the

Big and friendly kisses to the ones who have read my presentation until the very end !!!. . . The End.