Menhir from Bissin

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Menhir from Bissin

The menhir of Bissin (also called Le Caillou de Gargantua ) stands in a field in Bissin, about three kilometers southeast of Guérande in the Loire-Atlantique department in France .

The menhir is about 3.5 m high, almost 2.0 m wide and 0.8 m thick. The upper part is rounded. On one side there are two horizontal notches in the stone in the upper quarter.

tourism

The Route Bleue ( German "Blue Route" ) runs through Saint-Nazaire and Port Mort , along which eleven important prehistoric megalithic monuments are located. Below this is the Dissignac tumulus (No. 1) near the city. Among the dolmen of the Croix de Sandun (3), the dolmen of Kerbourg (4), the dolmen of Riholo (5), the dolmen of Rossignols (6), the tumulus of Mousseaux west of Pornic (9), the dolmen de la Joselière (10) and the Dolmen du Pré d'Air (11). Numbers 9-11 on the Pays de Rets are particularly well known. There are also the menhir from Bissin (No. 2), the 2.1 m high Pierre de Couche (7) and the approximately 2.7 m high menhir de la Pierre Attelée , (8), which has been classified as a historical monument since 1992 .  

The menhir Pierre de Saillé stands nearby .

literature

  • Jean L'Helgouach, Mégalithes en Loire-Atlantique, Nantes, Association d'Études Préhistoriques et Historiques des Pays de la Loire, 1996, ( ISBN 2-905407-01-8 )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a menhir of the same name is in Port Mort in the Eure department in Normandy

Coordinates: 47 ° 18 ′ 57.5 "  N , 2 ° 23 ′ 35.7"  W.