Menhir by Coat-Couravel

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Coat-Couraval menhir

The menhir of Coat-Couraval stands in the forest south of the hamlet Coat-Couraval, southeast of Glomel in the extreme southwest of the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France .

The irregularly shaped granite menhir from the Rostrenen massif is around 3.5 m high, 1.15 m wide and 0.6 m thick.

It was registered as a Monument historique in 1970 .

Nearby is the Glomel menhir .

See also

literature

  • Jacques Briard : The Megaliths of Brittany. Éditions Gisserot, 2000, ISBN 2-87747-065-2 .
  • Loïc Langouët: Les mégalithes de l'arrondissement de Guingamp , Institut Culturel de Bretagne, 2006, ISBN 9782868221018 , p. 24.
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

Web links

Commons : Menhir de Coat-Couraval  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 3 ° 21 ′ 22.6 ″  W.