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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Guinivrit Alternative Name: Porz Meur allée couverte, Kernic allée couverte
Country: France Département: Bretagne:Finistère (29) Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Saint-Pol-de-Léon  Nearest Village: Plouescat
Latitude: 48.656800N  Longitude: 4.2159W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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43559959 visited on 26th Apr 2014 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4

TheCaptain saw from a distance on 16th Apr 2014 Seen from over the estuary from the south, tide out and on the sandy beach.

bunnymadcaz visited on 5th Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Lovely gellery grave that gets covered by the tide at high tide!

TheCaptain visited on 21st Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 This really is a nice place to visit, certainly when its quiet and the sun is out. I had hoped to see it with the tide well in tonight, but one thing and another and its now gone 8:00, and the tide is already gone out for two hours, and the water has gone from around it. However, there is still a lot of water flooding out of the bay, and I certainly wouldn't want to try and get a boat in here, as its going at running speed. The allée couverte is easily found down beside the little harbour, and nowadays is signposted. Its not far at all from the little campsite where I stayed. Despite the fact that it has no capstones, and that some of the large side stones have been broken so it could act as a mole in the water for mooring and protecting boats in the past, it really is surprisingly complete. Most of the stones are still in place, not only of the main chamber, but also the peristalith, which is suitably boat shaped. In fact the whole thing looks rather like a boat pulled up onto the shoreline. The main chamber is about eleven metres long and 1.5 metres in width, but with the outer stones the full size of the monument is more than double that, perhaps 30 metres by 6 metres. There is both a forward and aft extension to the compartmentalised chamber. Fantastic. While here, I met a chap out for a bike ride, and we got talking about why I was here and ancient stones. He said he has always lived in the area, and as a boy used to play in the Goazvenn dolmen. He went on to tell me about a large fallen menhir that is almost forgotten, and that nobody ever talks about, and which seems to be in no historical records. He told me how to find it by walking around the coast path, and showed me where it was on my map, fallen onto the rocky shore. I decided that this was one place I had to visit, finding these forgotten stones has much more of a thrill than seeing the well known ones.

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.67 Ambience: 4 Access: 4

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Guinivrit submitted by thecaptain : Guinivrit allée couverte. The remains of this allée couverte clearly show the rise in sea level over the past 4000 odd years. Twice a day it gets a wash. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Guinivrit allée couverte on the northern shores of the Anse de Kernic, near Plouescat in Finistère, Brittany. The remains of this allée couverte get covered by the sea twice a day, as the high tide level is above the monument, which is found on the beach inside the little quay.

This really is a nice place to visit, certainly when its quiet and the sun is out. I had hoped to see it with the tide well in tonight, but one thing and another and its now gone 8:00, and the tide is already gone out for two hours, and the water has gone from around it. However, there is still a lot of water flooding out of the bay, and I certainly wouldnt want to try and get a boat in here, as its going at running speed.

The allée couverte is easily found down beside the little harbour, and nowadays is signposted. Its not far at all from the little campsite where I stayed. Despite the fact that it has no capstones, and that some of the large side stones have been broken so it could act as a mole in the water for mooring and protecting boats in the past, it really is surprisingly complete.

Most of the stones are still in place, not only of the main chamber, but also the peristalith, which is suitably boat shaped. In fact the whole thing looks rather like a boat pulled up onto the shoreline.

The main chamber is about eleven metres long and 1.5 metres in width, but with the outer stones the full size of the monument is more than double that, perhaps 30 metres by 6 metres. There is both a forward and aft extension to the compartmentalised chamber.

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Guinivrit submitted by bunnymadcaz : Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Guinivrit submitted by 43559959 : Guinivrit in a flash of sun on a stormy day. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Guinivrit submitted by theCaptain : View looking south on the beach, with the tide rushing out from the estuary. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Guinivrit submitted by Martin_L : The site in May 2001. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Guinivrit submitted by minteddy : Every time I go to this megalithic monument the tide is in. Clearly shows how sea levels have changed over 5,000 years. See my picture of the the menhir near Pont l'Abbe which is also knee deep in water. (2 comments)

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Guinivrit submitted by regina : Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France

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Guinivrit submitted by 43559959 : Guinivrit, fascinating site on the windswept shore of northern Brittany.

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Guinivrit submitted by theCaptain : View looking west into the evening sun (summer solstice 2005), from the top of the little hillock at the east end of the beach. The tide can be seen rushing out of the estuary past the little quay.

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Guinivrit submitted by theCaptain : View looking southwest across the estuary, with the tide rushing out

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Guinivrit submitted by bunnymadcaz : Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France

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Guinivrit submitted by 43559959 : Guinivrit sharing the space with a small boat harbour.

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Guinivrit submitted by 43559959 : Guinivrit

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Guinivrit submitted by 43559959

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Guinivrit submitted by theCaptain : View looking east from the little quay, with the tide rushing out from the estuary.

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Guinivrit submitted by regina : Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France

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Guinivrit submitted by regina

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Guinivrit submitted by theCaptain : Guinivrit allée couverte as seen from across the estuary on the south side, near Kernic.

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Guinivrit submitted by theCaptain : View looking east onto the beach, with the tide rushing out from the estuary.

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Guinivrit submitted by theCaptain : details from a little noticeboard at the quayside. Site in Bretagne:Finistère (29) France

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Re: Guinivrit allée couverte by TheCaptain on Thursday, 06 January 2005
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The remains of this Allée Couverte, and perhaps others nearby, are today submerged by the sea at high tide, which along with several other such places, serves to show the rise in sea level in this region since the bronze age.
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