Alignments from Lampouy
The Alignements of Lampouy are five rows of stones (A – E) in the municipality of Médréac on the western edge of the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France .
The rows of stones were first introduced in 1850 by Théodore Danjou de La Garenne (1817-1891) under the name "Tombelles Chenot" in the historical and geographical dictionary of the province of Brittany by Jean-Baptiste Ogée. The first detailed description of the alignments was made in 1883 by Beziers. For a long time, this and later publications report only four rows of stones.
The rows of stones
- Stone row A consists of nine partly very large and wide menhirs between about 5.0 and 1.4 m high. Six are lying on the floor, one is broken, of the three standing one is tilted.
- Stone row B consists of eleven menhirs between 3.4 and 1.4 m high. Everyone is lying on the ground, one is broken.
- Stone row C consists of nine partly very large and wide menhirs between about 5.4 and 2.0 m high. All are on the ground.
- Stone row D consists of eight menhirs between about 3.3 and 2.5 m high. All are on the ground. Three are also broken.
- Stone row E consists of ten menhirs between about 5.0 and 0.9 m high. Everyone is on the ground, one of which is broken.
- Alignments from Lampouy
Nearby is the menhir Pierre Longue (Guitté) .
literature
- Jacques Briard , Loïc Langouët, Yvan Onnée: Les mégalithes du département d'Ille-et-Vilaine , Institut culturel de Bretagne and Center régional d'archéologie d'Alet, coll.Patrimoine archéologique de Bretagne 2004 ( ISBN 2-86822-092- 4 ), pp. 56-61
- Yvan Onnée, André Corre, Jean-Luc Javré, Bernard Monnier: Les alignements mégalithiques de Lampouy, en Médréac (35), Les Dossiers du Ce.RAA, No. 31, 2003, pp. 39-52
- Entry no.PA00090625 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '37.3 " N , 2 ° 3' 52.7" W.