Les Roches du Diable (Miniac-sous-Bécherel)
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Les Roches du Diable ( German "Devil's Stones" ) are two menhirs in a forest southeast of Miniac-sous-Bécherel in the west of the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France . The stones were classified as a monument historique in 1960 .
Les Roches du Diable are an upright standing and a lying large menhir. They are part of an interrupted row of stones of about 50 blocks, some of which are more than a meter high. The stones are made of dolerite , a black volcanic rock near basalt found in northern Brittany and often used by the Neolithic people to make polished axes . The standing menhir is 3.6 m high and the lying one is 4.5 m long.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard , Loïc Langouët, 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", p. 115. 2004, ISBN 978-2-86822-092-9
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
Web links
Commons : Les Roches du Diable (Miniac-sous-Bécherel) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Deux mégalithes in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and picture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 16'53 " N , 1 ° 55'34" W.