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Built over 4000 years ago...

Built over 4000 years ago...
This gallery grave is a communal burial place and dates from 2400 BC. It's a specific type of Megalithic tomb where the burial chamber is about the same size as the entrance passage.

The objects found at the grave were gifts for the dead (archaeologists have updated more than thousand objects: vases, shards of pottery, arrows, tools, polished axes). The fact that no bones were found here could be due to the aciditiy of the soil.

Xata, Eric Readling, appo-fam, sea-herdorf and 12 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 Christa1004
Christa1004 club has replied
We are all Celts, Peter :-)
Thanks also for this very interesting link. I checked and think that the "Bryn Celli Ddu" looks quite similar. Merry Christmas days.
5 years ago.
 sea-herdorf
sea-herdorf club
Wunderschön mit dem verwelkten Blättern im Vordergrund, Christa.

Unter meinen DIAs besitze ich wohl noch eine Aufnahme von der sehr gut gepflegten Grabanlage in La Roche-aux-Fées.
FG
Erich
5 years ago.
 Christa1004
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Danke Erich. Der "Fels-der-Feen" ist eine riesige Megalithanlage im Gegensatz zu dieser, aber diese mit dem lustigen Namen Petit Vieux Sou (Kleiner Alter Penny) liegt auch auf einem Hügel in einem kleinen Wald mit Eichen und Kastanien.
5 years ago.
 HaarFager
HaarFager club
Amazing! Thanks for the information about it as well.
5 years ago.
 Christa1004
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Thanks HaarFager, indeed, it's an interesting place. When you stand there, it's amazing to realize that almost 5000 years ago people lived here and left these remnants...
5 years ago.

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