The Menez Dregan site of Plouhinec 29 !!

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The town of Plouhinec is in the Finistère department 29 in my lovely Bretagne and in my belle France, not to be confuse with the same name town in nearby Morbihan 56, It is also part of the Cap Sizun – Pointe du Raz community of towns. It is located at the southern entrance to Cap Sizun, near the Pays Bigouden; I found me another stray picture in cd rom vault and it should be in my blog for you and me, Therefore, here is my take on the Menez Dregan site of Plouhinec 29 !! Hope you enjoy the post as I.

The Menez Dregan site is a prehistoric site of the town of Plouhinec, From their site it tell us that to understand where we come from, the site of Menez Dregan leads us through the traces of our ancestors. It’s a leap of 465,000 years back in time, back to when Homo Heidelbergensis learned how to use fire and hunted elephants across vast plains that now lie underneath the ocean waves. A cave, a burial chamber, a gallery grave: Menez Dregan covers a long period of prehistory going from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic period, around 5,000 BC.

The Gallery Grave (see pic) at Pors Poulhan, Neolithic grave consists of 16 pillars in two rows, topped with huge stone slabs. Unearthed and restored in the late 1980s, it is the largest and technically the most perfect example in Finistère. Just a single one of the roof slabs weighs 15 tons. The gallery grave is around 20 meters long, and around 2 meters high. The rich variety of remains found within the site suggests that it was used for a long period, from the late Neolithic to the Gallo-Roman period.

Discovered in 1985 by Bernard Hallégouët, the site was the subject of surveys in 1988 and 1989 and has been searched without interruption every summers since 1991 , After 32 years, the last excavation campaign is organized during the summer of 2020 found several archaeological levels testifyng of successive human occupations; From the oldest to the most recent, these are layers 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 and 4, covering a period of 300,000 years, which spreads between – 500,000 and – 200,000 years. The oldest witnesses in Europe of control of fire by man !

The centre d’interprétation de Menez Dregan or the Menez Dregan’s interpretation center inaugurated in 2012, the interpretation center ;managed by the town of Plouhinec unveils the global history of the occupation of this site in the prehistoric era. Dolmens from the tip of the Souc’h at the covered alley of Pors Poulhan, passing by the Menez-Dregan cave, it allows you to make a trip in prehistoric times. It completes a 9 -step interpretation path which evokes the evolution of the climate, the different human practices but also the methods and the contributions of archeology. It is located at 818 rue de la Corniche.

The local Cap Sizun tourist office on the Menez Dregan site in Plouhinec : https://www.capsizuntourisme.fr/en/cap-sizun-pointe-du-raz/our-top-spots/menez-dregan

The town of Plouhinec on the Menez Dregan site: https://www.plouhinec.bzh/loisirs/culture/menez-dregan

There you go folks, another road warrior trip up north to the wonders found in my neighbor Finistére . Again, hope you enjoy the post on the Menez Dregan site of Plouhinec 29 !! as I.

And remember, happy travels , good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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