A prehistoric tomb once sat here, but its pieces ended up on the coast of Belle-Ile. In the last quarter of the 19th century, two menhirs and a part of the slabs of the allée couverte were removed and transported to Belle-Ile for the construction of a lighthouse. The larger of the two menhirs stood nearly 4 m tall and was named Er soudard-cam, or "the lame soldier" in Breton, while the smaller one was considered "like his wife".
This site is the allée couverte de Luffang-Tal-er-Roch. It was a circular mound, 46 m across, protecting a narrow stone gallery. The gallery is a cramped tunnel - between 1.10 m and 1.20 m wide - that takes a 45-degree turn just 7 m inside. It houses nineteen orthostates of varying heights, though several show traces of attempts at splitting by quarrymen.
The interior of the monument was deeply disturbed by the passage of these quarrymen. You can still see an engraving of an octopus carved into one of the stones near the bend.
Today, the mound is gone, leaving the skeletal remains of the gallery to face the elements in the Morbihan countryside. The archaeological layer, though disturbed, contains charcoal, pottery fragments, and flint flakes, along with a bronze spiral and fragments of yew wood bracelets.
Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons
Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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