Crec’h Quillé

Also known as:
Crec'h-Quillé, Crech Quille and Crech-Quille
Latitude:
48° 46' 16.25 N
Longitude:
3° 26' 39.41 W
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Images

Image of Crec’h Quillé (Chambered Tomb) by Moth

Friday 2 October 2009 Transverse entrance

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Nov 9, 2009
Image of Crec’h Quillé (Chambered Tomb) by Moth

Friday 2 October 2009 Engravings opposite entrance (the ‘breasts & necklace’ look more like a smiley face in my pic – sorry!)

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Nov 9, 2009

Articles

Crec’h Quillé

Jane
Jane Oct 12, 2009

This is an exceptional monument, utterly spectacular actually! It’s essentially a long barrow, 28 ms long, with a magnificent central passageway 15.8ms long. You enter from one side. It still has lovely kerbstones and plenty of high mound, up to a metre high in places.

It’s got lovely drystone walling between the kerbstones, a side entrance with original portal stones, outliers, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all. Who could ask for anything more?!

Burl’s instructions on how to reach it, in our copy of ‘Megalithic Brittany’ were 24 years out of date. It’s now in a hamlet largely gobbled up by the northern ‘town-creep’ of St Quay and at the back of an ugly out-of-town strip of garages, car lots, plumbing centres and gardening emporiums.

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