Finistère
This means “Land’s End” and is an area of many menhirs and chambered tombs. The first site we visited on our way around the coast was in a beautiful setting in the far south of the region.

Quélarn Dolmen
Passage Graves
Plobannalec, Finistère

From Pont L’Abbé head south on the D102 and after about 5km you reach Plobannalec. Go over the roundabout here and take the right turn with a small sign to the tombs after a few hundred metres. After about 1km look for another sign and a right turn onto a narrow lane that takes you to the site on the left with parking space.

This is a very peaceful site in a forest clearing. We had pleasant evening light and plenty of bird sounds and also nobody else in sight. The complex of tombs here were originally excavated in 1887 and again in 1983 and there is a useful site plan on a board that helps in making out the layout of tombs. There are six passage graves here and some are quite complex in design.

The first tomb has four side chambers though many stones are missing. The second also has four chambers and retains one capstone. Just 20m to the southwest is a 2.3m (7ft) standing stone that is pointed and has a groove running down it.

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