Kernic gallery grave

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The Guinirvit covered aisle, also known as the Kernic covered aisle, is a covered aisle located on the shore of Kernic Cove, in the commune of Plouescat, in the French department of Finistère. Although it is located on the foreshore and as such heavily subject to marine erosion, the site has delivered abundant archaeological material dated from the final Neolithic.

History: Paul du Châtellier, who visited the site in 1896, describes it as follows:

At the tip of Kernic, in the south, perpendicular to the coast, very large megalithic monument composed of three parallel rows of standing stones forming as two parallel covered alleys measuring inside 10 meters long and 1m80 and 2m wide. This monument is today sanded by the sea which covers it at all the great tides. Each gallery whose tables have disappeared is closed at both ends by megaliths across. This set was completed by rooms whose traces are still visible at least, for 3 of them. In 1912, Alfred Devoir, sees a gallery dolmen with adjoining rooms, accompanied by a "cromlech of support" oriented towards a small menhir, transformed...