Menhir de la Pierre Debout (district)
The Menhir de la Pierre Debout is located in the Champs Pluvieux, east of Reviers in the Calvados department in Normandy in France . The eponymous Pierre Debout or Menhir des Demoiselles of Colombiers-sur-Seulles is nearby.
The menhir used to stand in the ground and was only 80 cm high. This position explains his today paradoxical name Pierre Debout ( German "standing stone" ). In 1902 the prehistorian Léon Coutil (1856–1943) described "two deep grooves on the axes of the stone". In 1911 there were several wells connected by canals. The stone was subsequently excavated and lies on the ground. The depressions described at the beginning of the 20th century are visible on the base.
The menhir was classified as a monument historique in 1934 .
Several megaliths stand on the same axis at a distance of up to 7.5 km. There are the Menhir de la Demoiselle de Bracqueville and Les Grosses Devises and the megalithic Pierre Tourneresse of Cairon .
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 ° 18 ′ 7 ″ N , 0 ° 27 ′ 19.5 ″ W.