Menhir of Quélénec

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Menhir of Quélénec

The menhir of Quélénec (also Le Pâtre des Vaches, menhirs de Paotr Saout and Pierre Quélène called) of the D20 is in a heathery area south east of Locarn in the west of the Côtes-d'Armor department in Carhaix-Plouguer in the Finistere region of Brittany in France .

The medium-grained local granite menhir is 4.45 m high and 1.7 m wide. There used to be several menhirs here, the traces of which can still be seen on the ground.

See also

literature

  • Jacques Briard , Loïc Langouët, Yvan Onnée: Les mégalithes du département d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Institut culturel de Bretagne et Center régional d'archéologie d'Alet, coll. Patrimoine archéologique de Bretagne 2004 ( ISBN 2-86822-092-4 ), pp. 56–61

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Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '55.4 "  N , 3 ° 21' 56.6"  W.