Alignments from Kerzine
The Kerzine alignments (also Alignements du Gueldro or Gueldro Hillio ) are located in Plouhinec in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France .
The rows of stones consist of 96 preserved menhirs , some lying on the ground. They were moved or destroyed while roads were being built. The at least eight rows of partly colossal menhirs (4–5 meters) were several kilometers long. Another Carnac . During the Second World War the stones were used for several bunkers. The greatest destruction took place in the 19th century. The Kerzine alignments have been a monument historique since 1963 .
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
Web links
Commons : Alignements du Gueldro - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Description French and pictures
- The story of destruction - Thierry Le Nézet franz.
- Alignements du Gueldro in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ker is a Breton appellative that is often used as a prefix for place names. It means: "inhabited place".
Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 16.5 ″ N , 3 ° 15 ′ 6 ″ W.