Plougastel Inscription Photographs!

Thanks to the kindness (and keen photographic eye) of Cipher Mysteries commenter Françoise who visited the Plougastel-Daoulas site just a few days ago, I’m delighted to pass you all her great set of photographs. As always, feel free to click on them to see a higher-resolution version.

Setting the Scene…

The Anse du Caro is on the Plougastel-Daoulas peninsula, opposite Brest (in Brittany).

The part of it we’re interested is a little bit around the bay from any houses.

The cliffs go quite sharply upwards here: you can see heaps of rock fragments at the base.

The particular carved rocks we’re interested in are (if I understand correctly) nestled in near the bottom of a cliff.

The Main Carved Rocks

I’ve included all the photos of the main carving. Make of them what you will.

There’s not much more useful I can say at this point, so I’m going to let the photos do the talking for a bit. 🙂

You can clearly see that the tide rises up to cover these carvings, which might well suggest that this was not their original position.

“Anddin”

Curiously, there are a number of other carvings on adjacent rocks, which I suspect would need to be understood at the same time as the main rock.

Same carving but without the legs in the corner.

“PRET”…?

The Boat…?

Maybe this is an upside-down boat, maybe it’s not. I’ll leave it to others to decide.

The Last Few Carvings

This final picture might be the most interesting one of the batch, because it seems to directly support the idea that the carvings were all originally made higher up the cliff, and that coastal erosion / geological activity has caused them to break up and fall down.

With this in mind, it seems likely to me that there may well be many more carvings at this site still waiting to be found, and that there was originally a higher-order structure connecting them all.

At to what that structure actually was / what it was for / who it was by / what language it was in, I still have no useful idea. But all the same, it’s pretty interesting, hmmm?

Thanks again, Françoise, you are a Cipher Mysteries star! 😉

7 thoughts on “Plougastel Inscription Photographs!”

FrançoiseMQ on May 14, 2019 at 5:09 pm said:

It’ s a pleasure ! And if you need more details, I can go and take some other photos or videos. It ‘s seems that there are some other letters on the back of the main stone (last photo) but they are covered by some lichen.
J.K. Petersen on May 16, 2019 at 12:19 am said:

These are fantastic photos, not just of the rocks, but of the environment in which they rest.

Merci beaucoup, Françoise! Thank you for sharing them. And thank you to Nick for posting them.
davidsch on May 17, 2019 at 9:51 am said:

After some study of the photo package, I already thought this is not a cipher problem but more an archeological problem. Reading this nice posting support that.
Matt L. on May 31, 2019 at 9:20 pm said:

I thought I should mention, that one thing this find evokes in me, is the the book Ship of Theseus or S. by the renown Czech boogeyman VM Straka. One of the
main characters in the book is Corbeau, similar to the nearby fort. The countryside from Francois’s excellent pictures conjures up the renegade groups escape attempt. The code/language is very similar to the cave paintings of the mysterious K___ mountain people. There are unsolved ciphers in the book as well (or at least one, it appears). Might be connected, though interesting nonetheless.
Matt on June 2, 2019 at 3:42 am said:

Pardon, its Françoise, not François, quite different yes Madame? (Bow) (I hope) An honest misunderstanding there. Cheers.

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Dwayn on July 25, 2019 at 5:12 pm said:

Definitely thanks Françoise ! What great job 🙂

(Bonjour de Paris)
Yulia on October 1, 2019 at 7:05 pm said:

Does the stone with the date 1771 still exist? Maybe someone knows?
I couldn’t find any photo of it of good quality and high resolution.