“Well, what did you expect to see from a Carnac hotel bedroom window? Herds of wildebeest....?”
Seen from Gavrinis’s island, Er Lannic cromlech now pokes out of the tip of the island at low tide.
Look out for this helpful sign as you drive through the village. Without it you just wouldn’t find this monument hidden away among houses.
The carvings on the stones in the banana-shaped passage are truly astonishing!!!
The carvings on the stones in the banana-shaped passage are truly astonishing!!!
Looking across the now exposed capstones towards the Atlantic
Shepherd’s crooks are carved all over the main stone at the back of the chamber
Once inside, the passage is very tall – no stooping required here
You’re not meant to walk on the grass but I did anyway because I wanted to get up close and feel the scale of it.
Jane and Moth big it up for Spaceship Mark and the fascinating contents of his brain.
Parc Guren II – hideously overgrown and almost forgotten. But not by us!
An attempt to show scale. Bear in mind how foreshortened the main menhir-formed capstone is