Menhir du Fuseau
The 1883 in the archaeological directory of the Côtes-d'Armor department (then the Côtes-du-Nord) mentioned menhir du Fuseau (also Hôpital ; Naux ; Le Fuseau or Le Contentoux - German "spindle" - in the sense of spindle whorls - called ) is located south of Plaine-Haute near Quintin in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France . Several menhirs are known under this name in Brittany (e.g. Le Fuseau de Berthe , Le Fuseau de Jeannette , Fuseau de Margot , Le Fuseau de la Madeleine ).
The menhir is about 4.8 m high, 3.0 m wide and 1.4 m thick. Its broad sides are oriented to the northeast and southwest. It is made of coarse-grained porphyry granite .
The menhir has been registered as a monument historique since 1967 .
See also
literature
- Loïc Langouët: Les mégalithes de l'arrondissement de Saint-Brieuc , Institut Culturel de Bretagne, 2005, ISBN 9788682209805 .
Web links
- Menhir dit Le Fuseau in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '50.9 " N , 2 ° 51' 9.3" W.