Menhir of Lanvar
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The Lanvar Menhir is located in the Rue du Menhir, a dead end street east of Lanvar and north of Guilvinec in Cornouaille in the Finistère department in Brittany in France . It used to be in the hamlet of Kervennec, near a stream.
The menhir of granite , the great in outline resemblance to the ideal type of the menhirs of Ginestous has the function seems to have had to display a waterhole or a holy place (probably both). In this sense, Charles-Tanguy Le Roux addresses this category of monoliths as “marqueurs” or indicateur.
The stone is about 3.0 meters high, 2.0 wide and 1.0 m thick.
The menhir has been registered as a monument historique since 1962 .
See also
literature
- Luc Laporte , Charles-Tanguy Le Roux : Bâtisseurs du néolithique , Mégalithismes de l'Ouest en France, Paris, 2004 (Terres mégalithiques) ISBN 2-912691-22-2 .
- Pierre-Roland Giot , Jean L'Helgouac'h , Jean-Laurent Monnier : Préhistoire de la Bretagne , Rennes, 1979 (Ouest-France université, 1); nouv. éd. 1998, pp. 509-576, ISBN 2-7373-2186-7 .
Web links
Commons : Menhir de Lanvar - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Menhir de Lanvar in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and picture (English)
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '12.6 " N , 4 ° 17' 6.1" W.