Eastern chamber with the typical chalked-in carvings.
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Menhir at the east end of the mound. It’s actually not on the mound itself but about 10 metres in front of it.
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Pano of the great Moustoir Carnac mound.
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Looking east along the mound. It’s 8 metres tall.
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Menhir at the back end of the tumulus. The mound extends to the far reaches of this shot.
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Saturday 14 April 2005 Menhir near foot of tumulus
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Saturday 14 April 2005 Menhir at foot of tumulus – tumulus itself in background
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Saturday 16 April 2005 Menhir at foot of tumulus (which is on right of pic)
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Menhir on top of tumulus. “It feels just like hugging your mum when you were little”, said Spaceship mark, before tucking into a pair of Tunnock’s teacakes.
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Image credit: Moth Clark
Image credit: Moth Clark
Image credit: Moth Clark
Image credit: Chris Bickerton
Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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Le Moustoir tumulus is one of the seven Carnac Grand Tumuli, but if you didn’t know it was there you may well miss it. It’s so big and overgrown that it could easily be mistaken for a natural mound. But this has secrets: secret chambers – one of which you can enter and secret stones including a gorgeous one on the top that Mark hugged enthusiastically. “It feels just like hugging your mum when you were little”, he said.
I tried it. He was right. It had all the right proportions.
This was the perfect place for our picnic. Mark particularly enjoyed the Tunnock’s teacakes I’d packed, as these are not available in France. He also told us of his dreams of Branston pickle, Robinson’s fruit cordials and other British delights. Simple things, eh?
long and large the moustoir tumulus sits by the roadside, masquarading as just another carnac monument but is more interesting than most, for several reasons. The mound is surmounted by a 6-7ft tall menhir with another similar sized stone just yards away at it’s side, and yet another across the field beyond. one chamber and two cists are to be found, the entrance at the side nearest the road goes to the chamber and the cists are accessed from on top of the tumulus. It was mid summer 2003 when we visited and the place was almost overgrown but definately worth a visit especially after all those mind numbing rows of menhirs