US EditionA 7,000-Year-Old Giant Wall "Opens Perspectives in Underwater Archaeology" Discovered Off Finistère
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An archaeological discovery off the island of Sein revealed a 120-metre-long submerged wall dating from 7,000 years ago. A finding that could make it possible to "better understand
Scientists point out that the most important structures discovered, first noticed in 2017, "do not have the equivalent known in France for this period".
The discovery dates back to May 2022 but has just been the subject of a scientific publication which shows the largest submerged construction in France: a 120 m long wall for 20 m wide, 9 m deep, not far from the island of Sein (29).
The 62 monolithic construction of 120 meters by 20 meters of wide discovery in Brittany would be a dam or dam dating from the Mesolithic.
French marine archaeologists have discovered a large underwater wall off the coast of Brittany, dating back to around 5,000 BC.
Researcher Philippe Bodénes near a monolith planted in the wall of Toul ar Fot, off the island of Sein (Finstère). JEAN-MICHEL KEROULÉ/SAMM, 2023-2024 "We were returning from a dive near the lighthouse of Ar-Men, where we were looking for cannons. Back to the island of Sein [Finistère], as there was air in the bottles, we dived a second time."On 5 May 2022, Philippe Bodénes, president of the Society of Archaeology and Maritime Memory (SAMM), dis…
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