Menhir from Crec'h Ogel

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Menhir of Crec'h Ogel; in the background the menhir Croix de Pasquiou

The menhir of Crec'h Ogel (also called Pierre Longue ) is located near the D28 in Saint-Gilles-Pligeaux near Le Vieux-Bourg in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France .

The porphyry granite menhir is about 4.9 meters high, 2.46 meters wide and 2.0 meters thick.

A little over a hundred meters to the east is the 2.4 meter high Christianized menhir Croix de Pasquiou.

The menhir of Crec'h Ogel was classified as a Monument historique in 1971 .

See also

literature

  • Loïc Langouët: Les mégalithes de l'arrondissement de Guingamp , Institut Culturel de Bretagne 2006, ISBN 9782868221018 , p. 69

Web links

Commons : Menhir of Crec'h Ogel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 7.8 "  N , 3 ° 3 ′ 16"  W.