{"id":880,"date":"2014-08-08T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T22:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/?page_id=880"},"modified":"2021-07-30T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T21:00:34","slug":"gavrinis-cairn-passageway-gulf-of-morbihan-brittany-france","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/neolithic-art\/gavrinis-cairn-passageway-gulf-of-morbihan-brittany-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavrinis Cairn Passageway, Gulf of Morbihan, Brittany, France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GavrinisInterior22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-881\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GavrinisInterior22.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"842\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GavrinisInterior22.jpg 842w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GavrinisInterior22-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A 17-ton stone capstone is the ceiling of the rectangular central chamber. It is decorated with drawings of a bull and other designs. In 1984 it was discovered to be part of the same megalith that covers the cairn at Table des Marchand in Locmariaquer, a site nearby in the Gulf of Morbihan. During the Winter Solstice the sun illuminates this low, narrow passageway and hits the back wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A 17-ton stone capstone is the ceiling of the rectangular central chamber. It is decorated with drawings of a bull and other designs. In 1984 it was discovered to be part of the same megalith that covers the cairn at Table des Marchand in Locmariaquer, a site nearby in the Gulf of Morbihan. During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-880","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880\/revisions\/2093"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}