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Autumn 1930:
It was while searching for the ruins of the St Clair chapel in Bernet that Count Herman de Wrangel (owner of the Villambis estate) discovered this megalithic monument dating from the end of the Neolithic, around -2500 BC
In 1931, after extensive excavations with the help of Swedish archaeologist Olav Janse, bones and funerary furniture were found.
The results of the archaeological work carried out were exhibited at Villambis Castle until the departure of Count Wrangel who died in Stockholm in 1934. Left unused, archaeological objects were lost and the rest of the collection was donated to the Aquitaine Museum
The site is composed of a long oval tumulus 26 m long and 14 m wide, formed by a mass of limestone. It had a peripheral bench and internal dry stone structures. In the center, a paved cistus formed by eight stones contained a female skeleton lying on the right side, the face facing east, two small vases with a round bottom.
To the south, a simple dolmen provided bones, 150 teeth, three arrowheads with peduncles and a brass dagger. Fragments of several campaniform vases accompanied these burials which date back to the Chalcolithic (- 2100 BC).