This is what started it. A spur-of-the-moment visit to this passage grave rekindled my fascination with megalithic sites.

A friend told me about it. “It’s in a really beautiful spot,” he said. He was right.

From Brecé, we’d had to navigate increasingly narrow roads down a series of shallow valleys. You park the car in a wide spot in the road and walk 50m down a lane created by two bocage hedges, then skirt a small wood. The tomb appears suddenly, nestled into the edge of this wood, almost as if carved into the land. Passing through the entrance you find a chamber that crosses the entrance passageway to make a T-shape. This chamber is perhaps 5-6m long in total.

A sign at the site dates the tomb to 2400 BCE.

The site is better enjoyed from the outside, though. It somehow makes the woodland feel ancient and profoundly peaceful.