Alignement de la Grée Galot
The megaliths of the Alignement de la Grée Galot (also known as the Alignement de l'Orme d'à-Haut or as the "White Rock Cross") stand near the D 1 road, on the border between Sion-les-Mines in the north and Lusanger in the South, in the north of the Loire-Atlantique department in France .
It is the only known row of stones in the department . Of the original nine blocks, seven have overturned or disappeared over the centuries.
The stone row today consists of seven main blocks of quartz sandstone . Starting from the west, the second and third monolith are still standing. They are 1.2 and 1.8 m high. The others are on the ground. The sixth, about 2.0 m long block was divided into two halves in 1825 to serve as a Pont mégalithique , which failed. Another megalith can be found in the street.
According to Jean-Philippe Bouvet, the row of stones has been in the local cultural atlas since 1782. In 1788 there were still seven stones that were oriented east-west over a length of about 13 meters. Five had already fallen when the last edition of the Dictionnaire de Bretagne was published in 1853. Pitre de Lisle du Dreneuc (1846–1924) made a sketch at this time that is very similar to the current state.
literature
- Jean L'Helgouach: Mégalithes en Loire-Atlantique. Association d'Études Préhistoriques et Historiques des Pays de la Loire, Nantes 1996, ISBN 2-905407-01-8 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 44.5 " N , 1 ° 35 ′ 29.4" W.