Roc'h Toul

Roc'h Toul

Roc'h Toul is a cave in Guiclan , near Morlaix in the Finistère department in Brittany in France . In Breton, "Toull" means cavity or hole. In the specific case, the name can be translated as "cave of the rock". The cave is located 84 meters from the bank of the Penzé in a white sand and quartz rock . The straight cave is separated into two rooms by a rock wall, which must be bypassed to get from one room to the other.

The cave, discovered in 1970 by the Callot brothers, is about 52.0 m long and is made of armoric sandstone from the Ordovician . Between 1868 and 1869 the doctor Le Hir from Morlaix excavated the cave and found three to four hundred blades made of flint or sandstone from the Magdalenian . Le Hir found traces of human activity related to the cave in a field called Parc-ar-Plenen near the cave. Charles Benard Le Pontois (1867–1931) later searched the cave.

The Roc'h-Toul cave and rock were classified as a Monument historique in 1913 .

See also

• Roc'h Toul dolmen in Maël-Pestivien near Callac ( Département Côtes-d'Armor )

literature

• G. Laplace Jauretche: Les Industries de Roc'h-Toul et de Parc-ar-Plenen en Guiclan (Finistère) . In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 1957 pp. 422–438

Web links

Commons : Roc'h Toul  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Grotte et rocher de Roc'h-Toul in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
• Description and picture (English)
• Description and picture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '18.8 "  N , 3 ° 58' 23.7"  W.