<< Our Photo Pages >> Corn-ar-Palud - Chambered Cairn in France in Bretagne:Finistère (29)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Corn-ar-Palud Alternative Name: Gronval Cairn, Dolmens de ReunCountry: France Département: Bretagne:Finistère (29) Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Pont l'Abbé Nearest Village: Plovan
Latitude: 47.930770N Longitude: 4.38768W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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TheCaptain visited on 17th Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Beside the little road running along the coast around the almost deserted centre of Audierne Bay, just on the edge of the beach in the dunes, can be found the remains of a cairn with a few large rocks to be seen scattered around in it. Looking closer at some of these larger rocks, there is evidence of a chamber underneath one capstone. Obviously once upon a time this was a fairly complex place, probably a cairn with several dolmenic chambers within it, similar to many other places in this far southwestern tip of Brittany.
This really is a splendid place, with the surf rolling in creating its own mist and covering the land in clouds. Amazing.
johnstone visited on 14th Jun 2004 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 4
Looking closer at some of these larger rocks, there is evidence of a chamber underneath a capstone in at least one place. Obviously once upon a time this was a fairly complex place, probably a cairn with several dolmenic chambers within it, similar to many other places in this far southwestern tip of Brittany.
This really is a splendid place, with the surf rolling in creating its own mist and covering the land in clouds.
Amazing.
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