La Roche Carrée
The menhir La Roche Carrée (also called Menhir du Chénot) is located south of the hamlet of Le Chênot in Médréac in the west of the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France .
The quartzite menhir is pyramidal with a square base. Its height is 4.4 meters with a width of 2.1 meters and a thickness of 2.05 meters near the ground. Originally the height of the menhir was five meters.
In his megalithic inventory Ille-et-Vilaine from 1883, P. Bézier mentioned the existence of a second menhir on the southeast side of a quartzite cuboid of 1.8 by 1.2 meters. According to L. Collin, this had already disappeared in the 1930s, but was possibly buried.
The menhir is located near the alignment of Lampouy and the menhir Pierre Longue , which stands near the border in the Côtes-d'Armor department .
The menhir was classified as a monument historique in 1929 .
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard , Loïc Langouët, Yvan Onnée: Les mégalithes du département d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Institut culturel de Bretagne et Center régional d'archéologie d'Alet, coll. Patrimoine archéologique de Bretagne 2004 ( ISBN 2-86822-092-4 ), pp. 56–61
Web links
- Entry no.PA00090628 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description French and picture
Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '26.3 " N , 2 ° 3' 45.8" W.