Les Grosses Motto
Les Grosses Devises (east and west) are two menhirs about 750 m apart on the border between Colomby-sur-Thaon and Thaon near Caen in the Calvados department in Normandy in France . You are on either side of the old pilgrimage route from Cairon to Dover-la-Délivrande. In 1912, Raoul Doranlo, a member of the French Prehistoric Society, reported for the first time about stones identified as authentic menhirs at Thaon. Several flint blades and scrapers were discovered near them.
Les Grosses Devises (East) has a curved columnar shape and is 1.3 m high, 0.65 m wide and 0.4 m thick at the base.
Les Grosses Devises (West) has a triangular shape, is about 1.5 m high with a maximum width of 0.85 m and a thickness of 0.3 m.
Both menhirs are made of limestone and have small bowls ( French cupules ). The term Devises comes from Latin: divisio means to share; here so dividing or boundary stone. Along the municipal boundary there are other large pieces of stone that may be the remains of other menhirs.
Nearby is the Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville .
literature
- Vincent Carpentier, Emmanuel Ghesquiére, Cyril Marcigny: Archéologie en Normandie. Edition Quest-France, Rennes 2007, ISBN 978-2-7373-4164-9 , ( Collection Histoire ).
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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 22.2 " N , 0 ° 25 ′ 10.3" W.