Gravier de Gargantua (Croth)
The Gravier de Gargantua ( German Gargantuas Kiesel ) is a megalith in the middle of a forest near the forest road "Chemin de Gargantua" in Buisson de Croth, southwest of Croth in the extreme southeast of the Eure department in Normandy in France .
The monument consists of two flat split plates lying next to each other. One is 4.45 m long, 1.7 m wide and 0.7 m thick. The other is 4.4 m long and 0.6 m thick. Their width varies from 1.7 to 2.65 m (in the middle). The analogy of the split edges suggests that it is a block that has broken.
The megalith was first described by Léon Coutil in 1897 . The location near the intersection of two paths and the name "Gargantua" is attributed to many menhirs in the region ( Gravier de Gargantua in Port-Mort , Pierre de Gargantua in Neaufles-Auvergny and Caillou de Gargantua in Caillouet-Orgeville). This led to the belief that it is a broken menhir couché (sleeping).
Henri Lamiray noted in 1936 that the two elements of the same block and other smaller stones nearby belong to a dolmen that was likely destroyed while the road was being built. Excavations under the stones did not produce any results.
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literature
- Vincent Carpentier, Emmanuel Ghesquiére, Cyril Marcigny: Archéologie en Normandie. Edition Quest-France, Rennes 2007, ISBN 978-2-7373-4164-9 .
- Henri Lamiray: Mégalithes peu connus ou méconnus de la région d'Évreux . In: Bulletin de la Société normande d'Études préhistoriques , Volume XXXI, 1936–1937, Imprimerie Lecerf, Rouen 1939, p. 69. ( online )
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 10.7 ″ N , 1 ° 21 ′ 49 ″ E