Keranscot menhirs

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Menhir Men Bras by Trégrom

The two menhirs of Keranscot , called Men Bras (large stone) and Rochell Bras (large boulder), are located in the hamlet of Keranscot in the municipality of Trégrom , about 15 km southeast of Lannion in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France .

The massive menhirs from the Neolithic dominate the Léguer valley . They are 6.2 and 3.5 meters high.

Nearby are the Pergat menhirs .

See also

literature

  • Loïc Langouët: Les mégalithes de l'arrondissement de Guingamp. Institut Culturel de Bretagne, 2006, ISBN 978-2-86822-101-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. Ker or quer is a Breton appellative that is often used as a prefix for place names. It means: "inhabited place".

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Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 24.6 "  N , 3 ° 24 ′ 38.3"  W.