Dolmen de Mané-Kerioned
While coach parties queue at the main alignments, a five-minute walk north of the Kermario car park leads to three Bronze-Age passage tombs half-hidden in a grove of oak and gorse — entirely free, rarely crowded, and engraved with Neolithic symbols that most visitors never see.
Finding the dolmens
The site is signposted from the D196 between the Kermario and Kerlescan alignment fields — look for a small brown wooden sign reading 'Dolmen de Mané-Kerioned' and follow the sandy track for roughly 300 metres. There are no fences, no ticket booths and no audio guides: just three chambered tombs and the wind.
The largest of the three still has its capstone intact and you can crouch inside the passage — bring a torch to illuminate the carved zigzags, axe-head motifs and serpentine lines incised into the uprights. These carvings are among the best-preserved examples of Neolithic rock art in Brittany.
Why it matters
Mané-Kerioned (the name means 'Hill of the Fairies' in Breton) dates to around 3500 BC, predating the main alignments by several centuries. The three tombs were likely used communally over generations, their entrances oriented to catch the winter solstice sunrise.
Because the site sits on a slight rise, the view south from the capstone of the largest dolmen takes in a broad sweep of the alignment fields — a perspective that makes the sheer density of standing stones suddenly legible in a way the ground-level view does not.
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