11 juin 2007
The dolmen of Pors-Poulhan in Plouhinec
Small split become port 100 years ago, Pors-Poulhan marks the division of water between Cape Sizun and Pays bigouden.
Located at four kilometers of the borough of Plouhinec, the most populated commune course Sizun, it is a wearing of countryside which one can reach with foot by the path which skirts the coast.
One can meet the archaeologists of the paleolithic site there…
Since
1835, the Knight of Fréminville announces the shady walk of Pors -
Poulhan like “one of most beautiful and larger dolmens of all
Finistere”. What will not prevent it from being put at evil by an
activity of stone extraction of construction, to be used at the
beginning of the XXème century as handing-over with carts and finally
to be destroyed during the last world war by German, because it
obstructed the visibility of a coastal battery.
This remarkable Neolithic burial nevertheless was excavated in 1986 - 1987, acquired by the Council General and restored in 1988 - 1989 by its departmental service of archaeology.
It is made up of 16 pillars out of two parallel rows, which supported in the beginning three or four flagstones of cover (two are preserved to date). The excavation revealed a particular architectural design, which one finds mainly in the Iberian peninsula, and a movable rich person attesting a use of burial, over a long time, final Neolithic era at the time Gallo-Roman.
In the center is the funerary room whose entry is narrowed by a small pillar on which the slab rested, found broken.
Directed Is/Western, the room is closed in the East by a flagstone of bedside behind which a cella (small cell) opened in the East is, preceded by an ogival square limited by the drawn up stones.
With the origin, a hillock covered the funerary room and was bordered by a belt of drawn up stones: the périsalithe. (Audierne-infos)
According to the legend, the shady walk represented the furnace bridge of the S
acrifices.
Each August, a man was immolé to obtain a time favorable for harvest.
the existing depressions on the table of cover, formerly inclined, let
run blood. This legend dates from the XIX ème century, therefore not
really old, since front, the tilted flagstone did not exist.
And of course, which one do not include/understand, one it diabolise, as usual…