Menhir of Cailouan
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Menhir of Cailouan
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Menhir of Cailouan
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The menhir of Cailouan (also Cailouan, Kaelonan, Caëlonan or Kaillouan ) stands near a spring in Plésidy in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France .
The granite menhir, one of the tallest examples in France, is cylindrical with a square base and a tapered, rounded tip. It is about 8.0 meters high, 2.7 meters wide and 1.7 meters thick.
The menhir was classified as a monument historique in 1889 .
An almost completely buried dolmen is about 100 meters south. Only the oval granite capstone (2.6 × 2.3 meters) protrudes from the ground. It rests on three orthostats that were still visible at the beginning of the 20th century.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
- Loïc Langouët: Les mégalithes de l'arrondissement de Guingamp. Institut Culturel de Bretagne, 2006 ISBN 9782868221018
Web links
Commons : Menhir de Cailouan - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Menhir de Caëlonan, ou Caillouan in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and pictures (French)
- Description and pictures (English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '26.8 " N , 3 ° 9' 3.2" W.