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Kercado tumulus

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Nov 05, 2023 10:51 PM — History

A dolmen that is still covered by its original cairn, the Kercado tumulus was built ca. 4600 B.C. and remained in use for approximately 3,000 years.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/219854861

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
47.5957314, -3.0542642

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tumulus-dolmen de Kercado (4000 BC - 3000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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None

Kercado tumulus makes connections with:

Kercado tumulus located at Carnac megaliths (unspecified date range)

Kercado tumulus receives connections from:

None

Place type:
tumulus

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Kercado tumulus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/219854861> [accessed: 11 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/219854861 |title=Places: 219854861 (Kercado tumulus) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 11, 2025 10:18 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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