Rumfort menhirs
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The menhirs of Rumfort also ( French L'Homme Fort or Pierre de Rumfort ) are located south of Le Theil-de-Bretagne in the south of the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France .
The menhirs lie or stand in the western part of the forest of Theil, about 100 meters from the edge of the forest near the intersection of two forest paths, including the old "path of the salt workers" ( French Chemin des Sauniers ).
The standing menhir is made of purple slate , has a height of 2.8 m, a width of 1.6 m (at the base) and a thickness of 1.0 to 0.80 m. It has the shape of a cuboid with roughly hewn surfaces. When the forest didn't exist, it was visible from afar.
Two stones of similar dimensions (about 1.5 × 1.15 m and 1.2 × 0.85 m) lie a few meters to the southeast. According to the four-volume description in the “Dictionnaire historique et geographique de la province de Bretagne” by Jean-Baptiste Ogée (1728–1789), it should be the remainder of a row of stones.
The Angevin dolmen La Roche-aux-Fées is about 4.5 km away .
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard , Loïc Langouët, Yvan Onnée: Les mégalithes du département d'Ille-et-Vilaine , Rennes, Institut culturel de Bretagne et Center régional d'archéologie d'Alet, in: Patrimoine archéologique de Bretagne 2004, p. 122 ISBN 9782868220929
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Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 10.8 " N , 1 ° 26 ′ 22.4" W.