La Pierre Blanche
La Pierre Blanche ( German "The White Stone" ) is a menhir in Pocé-les-Bois near Vitré in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in France . The menhir of the same name by Pierre Blanche is in the hamlet of Pierre Blanche near Oudon in the Loire-Atlantique department .
The quartz menhir has the shape of an obelisk with a polygonal base. It is 3.72 m high, 1.54 m wide and 1.35 m thick.
The menhir La Haute Pierre, 800 meters away, and the menhirs in Pocé-les-Bois, the menhir in Villaumur and La Pierre Blanche are on a line.
The menhir is already mentioned in a document from 1207 under the name Petra Alba.
The menhir was classified as a monument historique in 1970 .
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard , Loïc Langouët and Yvan Onnée: Les mégalithes du département d'Ille-et-Vilaine . Institut culturel de Bretagne et Center régional d'archéologie d'Alet, Rennes 2004, ISBN 9782868220929 , p. 77.
Web links
Commons : La Pierre Blanche - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Menhir dit La Pierre Blanche in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 25.2 ″ N , 1 ° 14 ′ 1 ″ W.