Monuments mégalithiques de l'île Melon - Porspoder, Finistère, FRA - Megalithic Monuments on Waymarking.com

The Île Melon (also Île de Melon) is a small uninhabited tidal island (French Île-de-marée) opposite Gounizi in the municipality of Porspoder in the Finistère department in Brittany in France. It is located in the Parc naturel marin d'Iroise near the St. Lawrence Peninsula. The island has long been used for granite mining.

Their name comes from a saint whose worship is widespread in Cornwall and Wales.

On the small Île Melon there are / were four menhirs, a tumulus, two cairns and five dolmens. The largest menhir, which reached a height of about 7.0 m, was blown up by the Germans in 1942. The dolmens were more or less destroyed, two are completely destroyed. There are still a few menhirs and a better preserved "dolmen à couloir". The approximately 3.1 m long and up to 2.3 m wide dolmen has an approximately three meter long capstone supported by five bearing stones. The corridor, the access side of which has long been destroyed, still consisted of seven bearing stones in 1883. There is another collapsed dolmen on the island.

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Type: Dolmen Number: 46.00 Parking: Not Listed Size: Not listed Source: Not listed Purpose: Not listed

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