Le Menec

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1099 menhirs up to 4 meters high in rows 1167 meters long

Along with Kerlescan and Kermario, Le Menec is one of the major “Alignements of Carnac ” in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France .

At Le Menec there are 1169 menhirs in twelve rows of stones over a length of 1165 m . The eleven main rows have a width between 116 m in the west and 63 m in the east, a twelfth row branches off to the north. The individual stones also get smaller from west to east. In the middle of the western rows is a larger stone known as the " Grand Menhir ".

The fenced in, inaccessible alignments have a slight bend about half their length where a street crosses, which directs the alignment towards the end of the enclosures. Alexander Thom and A. Burl have found that the rows are aligned with the rises and sets at the solstices in summer and winter.

  • Le Ménec

  • Map of the rows of stones

  • The rows of stones at the kink (model)

  • The rows of stones

At Le Menec, the core of an oval stone enclosure measuring 90 × 70 m at the western end and a row of 70 menhirs in the northwest have been preserved. The arrangement of the menhirs in the enclosure can be clearly distinguished from the rows of alignments. The stone enclosure at the eastern end of the alignment consists of very small stones and is lost in the heather.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 36 "  N , 3 ° 4 ′ 47"  W.