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<< Our Photo Pages >> Prajou-Menhir allée couverte - Passage Grave in France in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22)

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Country: France Département: Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Lannion  Nearest Village: Trebeurden
Latitude: 48.794800N  Longitude: 3.5647W
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
4 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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w650marion visited on 22nd Sep 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Wonderful allée couverte, took us a while to find the carvings!

TheCaptain visited on 24th Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 This is a terriffic allée couverte approaching 14 metres long and facing towards its indicator menhir at orientation 103°. Seven capstones of varying sizes are still in place, the two westernmost being the covers for a separate end cell of about 2.5 metres length. Within this end cell are many carvings, including pairs of breasts, cartouches, palettes and many others. Approaching 2 metres wide, it is not much more than a metre in height. It has probably been helped in its survival by being incorporated into a wall at some stage in the past, but of which all immediate traces have now been removed. It is easily found in a little grassy area just to the south of the road to Ile Grande, with a signpost, and is a part of a local "Megalith Trail", details of which can be obtained from the local tourist office. There are several other menhirs in this area of land, just above the high tide level and marshy.

johnstone visited on 22nd Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5

TheCaptain visited on 30th May 1993 Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.

DrewParsons Martin_L rrmoser have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4.67 Access: 4.33

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by greywether : From the W. The art is in the end cell in the foreground. June 1994 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte is a terriffic monument approaching 14 metres long and facing towards its indicator menhir at orientation 103°. Approaching 2 metres wide, it is not much more than a metre in height.

Seven capstones of varying sizes are still in place, the two westernmost being the covers for a separate end cell of about 2.5 metres length.

Within this end cell are many carvings, including pairs of breasts, cartouches, palettes and many others.

It has probably been helped in its survival by being incorporated into a wall at some stage in the past, but of which all immediate traces have now been removed.

It is easily found in a little grassy area just to the south of the road to Ile Grande, with a signpost, and is a part of a local "Megalith Trail", details of which can be obtained from the local tourist office.

There are several other menhirs in this area of land, just above the high tide level and marshy.

Base Mérimée (Historic Monument)
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Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by DrewParsons : View inside the main chamber (Vote or comment on this photo)

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by karolus : Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France (Vote or comment on this photo)

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by Flickr : Allée couverte de Prajou Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D''Armor (22) France Image copyright: "Besenbinder" (Armin S Kowalski), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by DrewParsons : The junction between the main chamber and the smaller chamber (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by DrewParsons : The entrance to the main chamber (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by DrewParsons : View of the site taken in September 2009

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Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by greywether : Art in end cell.

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by w650marion : The dark line across the carving is from the rain... (1 comment)

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by johnstone : Nice view with a lovely ambience on June 22, 2005

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Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by regina : Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by regina

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by DrewParsons : A cartouche style carving inside the minor chamber (1 comment)

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Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by DrewParsons : Detail of one of the carvings inside the minor chamber photographed in September 2009

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by DrewParsons : View of one of the carvings inside the minor chamber

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by DrewParsons : Close up showing the dividing stone between the main chamber on the left and the minor chamber on the right

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by DrewParsons : September 2009

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by Martin_L : View inside the chamber. As seen from the entrance in the East (May 2001) (2 comments)

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by w650marion : It looks like a happy face! I know it's not, but finding it made me happy.

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by w650marion : Two decorated stones in the end cell.

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by w650marion : The end cell with the carvings. There are big enough gaps to hold a camera, and if the light is right....

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by regina : Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by postman : Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France Taken early in the morning whilst motor homing in 2004

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by Martin_L : From the north-east (May 2001)

Prajou-Menhir allée couverte
Prajou-Menhir allée couverte submitted by Martin_L : From the east. Looking towards the entrance (May 2001)

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Re: Prajou-Menhir allée couverte by Martin_L on Friday, 26 October 2007
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Don't get confused: The 2 photos of Tom Bullock don't show the Prajou Allée Couverte. They depict the Allée Couverte Ty-Lia on the Ile-Grande. This is a separate site 1,1 km NW of Prajou-Menhir. It has is own photo page.
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    Re: Prajou-Menhir allée couverte by TheCaptain on Friday, 26 October 2007
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    You are quite right. thank You. Well spotted. I have now moved them.

    Sometime in the next ten years, I will perhaps have got through all the notes and pictures I took in 2005, and sort all these French pages out properly !
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