More archaeology
Today the archaeology was a bit more hidden away and not at all touristic. The first site was a stone-built tower site not dissimilar to a dun, adjacent to the campsite. The signage for this one involved a wooden board with "Site" written on it about half a kilometre from a driveable road.
The second site was the most organised of the da, even having a parking. It involved a tour around a dolmen and two groups of menhirs.
After a brief sojourn on a Rinsey-like beach in an out of the way trendy little coastal resort, the image above was the third site. Here the signage consisted of arrows made of small stones at various strateigc and unstrategic junctions. We were quite surprised to find it.
The site itself was weird with line of menhirs - many fallen - with 248 stones in total. Nobody quite knows its purpose although the best theory seems to be that it was built to deter invaders.
Whilst in Propriano for a morning coffee on the way through, we dropped into the Tourist office to enquire about concerts to be told that A Filetta were performing in the church there in the evening. Twenty years ago I purchased one of their Corsican Polyphonic Chants CDs and this seemed too good an opportunity to miss and so tickets were purchased.
When we got to the chapel, it was to find that the concert was sold out so we had done well to buy the tickets in the morning. An excellent - if slightly weird -.concert, was followed by a pizza overlooking the harbour there,.
Late in the evening a thunderstorm provided a test for the tent as one could feel water running under the groundsheet, a test which the tent withstood surprisingly well.
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