Prajou Menhir Alle Couverte

The area around Lannion was another megalithic center, not comparable to Carnac, of course, but with numerous sites. We hit some of the more accessible ones this day, one being the Prajou Menhir allee couverte.

It's interesting how things have changed; in the 1980s, we'd
drive around looking for them; then we drove around with
Aubrey Burl's Megalithic Brittany in hand; still in hand too,
although our preferred on-line source now is Megalithic Portal
(www.megalithic.co.uk); the trouble now is they're readily
found but you have to distinguish between the megaliths of
the ancients and those now used as lawn ornaments; I
suppose "mock neolithic" will become a bona fide
architectural or at least landscaping term

And now the Offices de Tourisme not only know where the real
ones are, they have constructed trails linking them; and clever
sign posts

The Prajou Menhir allee couverte; presently over-run by a
family from Switzerland and some others

The menhir? It's a curiously-named site, since what you're
looking for is the allee couverte

Interior of the allee

I did manage to find a couple putative cup marks

And one or two of the bumps

But I failed to find the main carvings here, and went back to the
camper to consult Megalithic Brittany; meanwhile, the Swiss
kids had done their own exploring and

Turns out the carvings were in the final chamber, which was sealed
off from the rest; there was enough of a crevice in the roof
slabs to let myself down and in the chamber; and the kids proudly
pointed out what I was looking for

Thus

And thus

Nice ones

Also other symbols, bows, staffs, other things my unpracticed
eye could not see

Etc.

Another great specimen