Alignement du Petit-Rohu

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The Petit-Rohu alignment is a submerged megalithic alignment located on the estran at Saint-Pierre-Quiberon in the French department of Morbihan.

History: On 2 August 2007, while collecting shellfish, holidaymakers discovered four jadeite axes on Porh Fetan's estran. They report their discovery to the Regional Archaeology Service of Brittany and the Museum of Carnac. An underwater and terrestrial archaeology operation is then launched and allows to discover a submerged structure constituting a megalithic alignment.

Archeological furniture: The two pairs of axes discovered in 2007 planted in the ground, sharp towards the sky, were buried in the Neolithic in a swampy environment developed behind a dune cordon protecting the beach known as the Petit Rohu. The jadeite axes found in a funeral context come from neolithic careers in Mount Viso, testifying to the time when the Carnac region was a great European centre of power and wealth at the beginning of the fifth millennium marked by the process of asserting social inequalities.