Cromlech de Lorette

The mound is rectangular, 20 m long and 7 m wide. Its long sides are formed of slabs, generally touching one another and leaning outwards: sixteen quartz-rich slabs on the north side and eleven sandstone slabs on the south side. The northern blocks are rather stocky and low, while those on the south side are much taller. The corner slabs have fallen backwards, and those at the north-west and south-west corners are broken.

An indicator menhir, now fallen and 2 m long, lies on the axis of the monument, 3 m to the west.

The site was excavated in October 1958. The acidity of the soil did not allow any bones to survive, and the funerary goods recovered were themselves very few. The pottery is limited to fragments of undecorated Chasséen ware, fairly fine, hard and reddish; one slightly thicker sherd shows the beginning of a flat, slightly flared base. The stone tools consist of one tiny flint flake and tools of lustrous sandstone: 3 arrowheads with a transverse cutting edge and 2 blades.

The excavation noted several similarities with the burial mound of La Croix Saint-Pierre: a high site that is unsuitable for agriculture, an indicator menhir, a burial area concentrated in the eastern third or quarter of the mound, and poor grave goods.