Menhir du Fuseau

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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

Commons : Menhir dit le Fuseau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '50.9 "  N , 2 ° 51' 9.3"  W.