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Flag of the Principality of Barnenez - Image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2006
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Barnenez is located on the peaninsula of Kernelehen (municipality of
Plouézoc'h), 10 km north of Morlaix. The Great Cairn of Barnenez is
built on a coastal shelf dominating the Channel. The monument has been
known for years but its excavation started only when a stone quarry
located near the cairn was to be increased; unfortunately, a former
increase of the quarry made in 1954 destroyed a smaller cairn located
in the north of the big cairn.
Now completely excavated, the cairn is 72 x 20-25 m and 9 m high; it is
indeed made of two adjacent cairns. The second cairn was added in the
west on an increasing slope, which required the building of a retaining
wall. Inside the cairn are eleven funerary halls, 7-12 m long, covered
with granit flagstones.
Remains of charcoal found in the stones were used for the C
Source: Paleologos website by Odile Prigent
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2006
The flag of the Principality of Barnenez is horizontally divided
black-light blue-white-light blue-black with a white triangle charged
with a red ermine spot placed along the hoist. The ratio of the flag is
1:2.
The flag was designed by the cartoonist Tramber, from Plouézoc'h, who has lived for ten years in Barnenez. Tramber published strip cartoons in famous French specialized journals such
as Kebra, L'Echo des Savanes, Métal Hurlant and Hara-Kiri
Hebdo. Back to Brittany, he published the cartoon books BZH
(with Roger-Louis Dautriat), Iles Secrètes, Les Naufrageurs and
Panique à Plégastel (with Marc Voline), Le Secret de Plégastel (with Georges Jouin) and Le Petit Tramber. His last books are Trop
Breizh (lit., Too much Breizh!, with a pun on Tro Breizh, the
traditional Breton pilgrimage) and La Marée était en noir (lit., The
Tide was balck, with a double pun on the title of François Truffaut's
movie La Mariée était en noir - The Bride was dressed in black -, and
marée noire, an oilslick). Tramber publishes a plate of cartoons
every week in Le Télégramme de Brest. I have not been able to find if he flag of Barnenez was designed for one of Tramber's book or if it is an independent invention.
The Principality of Barnenez has no official status but the flag does exist in real and as painted on road signs.
Hervé Prat, Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 11 February 2006