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... and yet so far away. Our last Carnac site visit wasn’t what we had hoped for, but glad to have got this close all the same.
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Pano of the side chamber, halfway along the passage at Pierres Plats.
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The largest of the three tombs, with the smaller, middle, tomb in the distance.
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Along the passage to the chamber of the smallest of the tombs.
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Leaning capstone over the chamber of the middle tomb.
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Herself on one the the fallen giants, head height at over 2 and a half metres, looks up at one of the standing giants.
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There are small, outlying remainders of rows in the woods hereabouts.
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Some of the main alignment stones are enormous.
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Access to Kerzerho is open. There’s a car-park just in off the Plouharnel to Erdeven road.
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Kerlud is right beside the road, and is all that remains of a once massive Carnac Mound.
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Pano of the chamber at Kerlud, restored in 1928, it is half orthostats and half drystone walling. Burl say there was a carved stone here, now missing.
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Carved square on the top of the chamber capstone.
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Roadside passage grave in the tiny hamlet of Cosquer. Very short, roofed passage, with remaining six orthostats holding up a substantial chamber capstone and a passage roofstone.
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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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The mound has been cut into on its western, road side.
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The in-state-care sign with the menhir in the background.
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Menhir atop this 13 metre high Crucuny mound.
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A stone stands still, almost skulking in the brush and scrub. Behind this are the low remains of what were four rows, “perhaps 68 metres long from N to S and 36 metres wide.” Burl, ibid. I found maybe 10 stones – there may be more remaining, obscured by brambles and stuff.
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Remains of a forgotten Carnac alignment.
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“100 metres to the south of the passage-grave are the dilapidated survivors of four rows of standing stones.” Aubrey Burl, Megalithic Brittany, page 151
Dilapidated and difficult to find, as they are well overgrown and almost forgotten, even since Moth’s picture of 11 years ago earlier in this site. Trees and scrub hide these sad reminders.
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The north-west transept – any one of these would be impressive individually, but to have five in one monument simply encapsulates the Brittany experience.
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From the east towards the passage with the ruined south-east transept to the left.
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