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<< Our Photo Pages >> Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h - Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle in France in Bretagne:Finistère (29)

Submitted by TheCaptain on Tuesday, 28 December 2004  Page Views: 5539

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h Alternative Name: Kastell Lostmarc'h, Oppidum à éperon Barré
Country: France Département: Bretagne:Finistère (29) Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Nearest Town: Crozon Peninsula  Nearest Village: Crozon
Latitude: 48.213000N  Longitude: 4.5567W
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.
5 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.
3 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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TheCaptain visited on 19th Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Just below the big Lostmarc'h headland with the alignements on top, there is a smaller headland which has been defended from the mainland by the creation of two rows of massive banks and ditches protecting it. On the headland apart from the inevitable remains of a chapel of some sort, there is also what appears to be the remains of some sort of cairn and burial chamber on the top. It wouldn't be unusual for one to be in such a place. There are 6 stones still sticking out of the ground here about 2.5 metres apart from each other, and stumps of others to be seen, which sort of make a rectangle inside a circular cairn. It is very windblown here today, and misty which is a bit of a shame. The views would be tremendous on a clear day.

Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h
Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h submitted by thecaptain : Just below the big Lostmarc'h headland with the alignements on top, there is a smaller headland which has been defended from the mainland by the creation of two rows of massive banks and ditches protecting it. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Just below the big Lostmarc'h headland with the alignements on top, there is a smaller headland which has been defended from the mainland by the creation of two rows of massive banks and ditches protecting it.

On the headland apart from the inevitable remains of a chapel of some sort, there is also what appears to be the remains of some sort of cairn and burial chamber on the top. It wouldn't be unusual for one to be in such a place. There are 6 stones still sticking out of the ground here about 2.5 metres apart from each other, and stumps of others to be seen, which sort of make a rectangle inside a circular cairn.

It is very windblown here today, and misty which is a bit of a shame. The views would be tremendous on a clear day.
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Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h
Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h submitted by KaiHofmann : Pointe de Lostmarc'h. Image taken Sept. 2001 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h
Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h submitted by thecaptain : Just below the big Lostmarc'h headland with the alignements on top, there is a smaller headland which has been defended from the mainland by the creation of two rows of massive banks and ditches protecting it. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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 454m NNE 28° Alignement de Lostmarc'h 1* Stone Row / Alignment
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Re: Pointe de Lostmarc'h by lafemmedepierre on Thursday, 18 August 2022
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May I suggest ? As this is an anthentic oppidum, so called "oppidum à éperon barré",(sorry I don't knoow the correct english terminology) , I 'd like to suggest the word OPPIDUM tp appear in the name.
For instance : : Oppidum à éperon barré de Lostmarc'h, or Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h, or Oppidum de l'Age du fer de Lostmarc'h...
Thank you for your opinion.
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