Menhir from Kerguézennec
The menhir of Kerguézennec (also menhir of Kerzévennec / Kerwezhenneg ) stands on a hill east of Bégard in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France .
The menhir is 5.6 m high (according to other sources 6.25 m), 2.8 m wide and 1.8 m thick. Its shape is cylindrical up to a height of 5.0 m, after which it is rounded.
The menhir is made of local Plouaret granite , but it comes from a slate substrate that required a transport of at least 500 m between the place of extraction and the place of erection. An erosion crack divides it upwards.
The menhir was classified as a monument historique in 1889 .
About 3.0 km away is the Menhir of Minhir , also known as the Menhir of Crec'h Coulm .
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 , p. 15.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ker or quer is a Breton appellative that is often used as a prefix for place names. It means: "inhabited place".
Web links
- Menhir de Kerguézennec in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and pictures (French)
- Description and pictures (English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 37'57.4 " N , 3 ° 16'41.3" W.