Altar Wedge Tomb

© photo : Mathieu Morverand

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Archaeologists recently uncovered some burnt human bone which they radiocarbone dated to about 2,000 BC and believe that the tomb continued to be used as a sacred site in the centuries that followed. Shallow pits, probably with food offerings, were dug into the chamber floor in the later Bronze Age - between 1,250 and 550 BC - anc Celtic Iron Age people filled a pit with sea shells and fish bones sometime between 124 and 224 AD. Whale bones were also found from this period. The ritual use of the site ended with the arrival of Christianity, but it was briefly resumed during the 18th centery when the tomb was used as an altar by priests who were forbidden by law to say mass in a church.