Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville
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Demoiselle de Bracqueville
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Demoiselle de Bracqueville
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The crooked menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville (also called l'Épinette or La Pierre Plantée) stands in a field near the hamlet of Bracqueville, southwest of Bény-sur-Mer near Caen in the Calvados department in Normandy in France .
The menhir is about 1.4 meters high, 0.7 meters wide and 0.3 meters thick. On the top we see a small bowl with a groove that ends in a vertical crack on one side.
The menhir was classified as a monument historique in 1933 .
Legend
According to local residents, the demoiselle is so called because of the nightly apparitions of young women dressed in white around the menhir. Indeed, the moonlight, the silhouette and the light gray coloring of the menhir create the image of a person with a long veil. It is also said that several menhirs used to stand in the area. It is likely that the menhir will be obscured by the grain in summer.
The menhirs Les Grosses Devises are less than 3.0 km southeast .
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 ° 16 '54.6 " N , 0 ° 26" 33.7 " W.