Serge Cassen et al (2008)
"Discovery of an underwater deposit of Neolithic
polished axeheads and a submerged stone alignment
at Petit Rohu near Saint-Pierre-Quiberon (Morbihan,
France"
Antiquity Vol 82 Issue 316 June 2008

In August 2007, holidaymakers discovered two
pairs of polished jadeitite axeheads that had
been set vertically in gravelly silt on the
beach of Porh Fetan, at a location called Petit
Rohu (Figure 1). The shape and material of
these axeheads allowed them to be identified
straightaway as being of Alpine origin, in
common with a number of axeheads found in the
region (Bailloud et al. 1995; Pétrequin et al.
1997). Archaeological fieldwork, both on the
land in the vicinity of the findspot and
underwater, was subsequently carried out by the
Laboratory of Archaeological Research (CNRS –
Nantes University), in order to examine the
context of the findspot and to try to delimit
the extent of the site.


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