Abstract
An archaeological diagnosis followed by a rapid assessment on the site of a future property development at Bernières-sur-Mer allowed the observation, unfortunately incomplete, of a network of ditches dividing plots of land, and of several funerary structures (enclosures and tombs) dating from the end of the 3rd millennium ВС (very beginning of the Bronze Age). These enclosures and burials probably belong to a funerary complex already partially discovered some 20 years ago about 100 metres away: the two "famous" Bernières tombs dated to the late 3rd or early 2nd millennium and described by G. Verron in 1976. One of the tombs discovered this year (tomb 102, enclosure 101) has been dated to between 2195 and 1918 ВС, which tends to indicate that the two sites form an almost contemporary complex. The remains discovered at Bernières-sur-Mer would thus constitute a single exceptional site, now for the most part destroyed (this site has not been excavated and the plots of land for development have been discharged from all archaeological constraints), covering over six hectares (approximately 15 acres) and related to a land use system dating back to the 3rd millennium.
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