La Noce de Pierres
La Noce de Pierres ( Breton An Eured Veign - German wedding of the stones ) is an alignment protected as a Monument Historique near Brasparts in the Finistère department in Brittany in France .
On the high moor in the southwest of the Réservoir de Saint-Michel, in the depression below the Monts d'Arrée , there are a total of more than 77 white menhirs ; 20 in a curved row, the others scattered and partly overturned. At the eastern end of the row, the stones are up to 1.8 meters high. The western end of the row seems to disappear into the undergrowth.
Legend has it that the night owls of a wedding party in the country did not stop dancing when a priest passed by who was called to the bed of a dying man. That is why they were turned into stones.
literature
- Michel le Goffic: To Eured Vein, la noce de pierres de Brasparts (Finistère). In: Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Finistère. Vol. 134, 2005, ISSN 0249-6763 , pp. 37-47.
- Samuel Lewis: Guide to the Menhirs and other Megaliths of Central Brittany. Nezert Books, Duault 2009, ISBN 978-952-270-595-2 .
Web links
- Alignements d'An Eured Veign in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 43.8 " N , 3 ° 55 ′ 51.7" W.