Les Roches Piquées

Les Roches Piquées 1

Les Roches Piquées ( German for the pierced rocks ) are twelve menhirs up to 4.2 meters high , which stand in two groups, south of the road that west of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier near Fougères in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France through the Foret de Haut Sève (forest). Five of them have been classified as Monument historique since 1900 .

Group 1

Menhir 1 is about 2.9 m high, 1.6 m wide and 1.12 m thick, the pyramidal stone has a small bowl on the north side.
Menhir 2 is about 3.2 m high, 1.0 m wide and 0.9 m thick.
Menhir 3 is about 2.2 m high, 0.9 m wide and 0.6 m thick.
Menhir 4 is about 2.8 m high, 1.56 m wide and 1.4 m thick; the stone is obelisk-like.
Menhir 5 is about 2.15 m high, 1.8 m wide and 1.0 m thick. The irregularly shaped stone has four bowls on the southwest side.
Menhir 6 is about 4.05 m high, 2.4 m wide and 2.23 m thick the prism-like stone has four bowls on the southwest side.

The second group of menhirs also consists of six blocks, of which only two are standing.

Menhir 1 is about 0.9 m high, 0.87 m wide and 0.58 m thick; the standing stone is prism-like.
Menhir 2 is about 3.2 m high, 2.7 m wide and 1.4 m thick: the standing stone is prism-like and is called the "judge's staircase".
Menhir 3 is about 1.62 m high, 0.65 m wide and 0.6 m thick, the lying stone has three bowls on the side.
Menhir 4 is about 1.97 m high, 1.22 m wide and 0.55 m thick, the lying stone has broken.
Menhir 5 is about 4.2 m high, lying down
Menhir 6 is about 2.0 m high, lying down

Other blocks cover the ground on an area of 0.4 ha, but are more or less hidden by the vegetation.

Jacques Briard , Loïc Langouët et Yvan Onnée, Les mégalithes du département d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Rennes, Institut culturel de Bretagne and Center régional d'archéologie d'Alet, coll. "Patrimoine archéologique de Bretagne", 2004 ( ISBN 9782868220929 ), Pp. 82-86

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