Menhir de la Roche Piquée

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Menhir de la Roche Piquée

The Menhir de la Roche Piquée (also called Menhir de la Baudouinais) is located in La Haute Bénerais near Livré-sur-Changeon in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France .

The menhir is made of purple slate . Its shape is essentially that of a parallelepiped with a beveled tip. It is 3.85 meters high, 2.15 to 2.5 meters wide and 1.5 meters thick.

The menhir was classified as a monument historique in 1931 .

The Menhir de la Roche Piquée from Saint-Germain-le-Vasson in the Calvados department is of the same name .

See also

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Menhir de la Baudouinais  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 34.7 "  N , 1 ° 23 ′ 47.2"  W.