Sandun dolmen

The monument was already partly damaged when Henri Quilgars excavated it in 1896. Before the excavation it appeared as a rectangle 7,50 m long and 1,50 m wide, from which 7 standing stones emerged, the tallest 1 m high. The excavation identified the remains of an allée couverte whose capstones had long since disappeared. An eighth orthostat was uncovered during the work.

The orthostats enclosed a burial space whose floor was paved with small flat stones. This paving continued outside the passage towards the north, forming a paved passage that is now destroyed. Later excavations showed that it joined the allée couverte of Crugo, which lies close by.

Two large hearths containing much ash and charcoal were identified in the eastern part of the chamber. Two whole vases of fairly coarse, undecorated type, one of black clay and one of red clay, were found there, together with thousands of pottery fragments. The presence of hearths and pottery together suggests that the monument was a cremation tomb.

Nearly 80 stone tools and objects completed the assemblage: 2 celts (one of diorite, one of honey-coloured flint), 2 quartzite hammerstones, 3 arrowheads, 15 knives and 10 scrapers of flint, 6 flint saws, 1 quartzite hammer, 1 piercing tool and various flakes.