Petit menhir du Champ de la Garde
The Petit menhir du Champ de la Garde (also known as Pierre à huile ) is a menhir in Cholet in the Maine-et-Loire department in France .
description
The menhir is about 3.0 m high. Its shape is prismatic. The largest area is 1.7 m long in plan and directed to the southeast. The head of the menhir is rounded. It is a slab "made of gray granite with black mica and large orthoclase crystals of local origin". According to old drawings, there was "a cubic block 1.0 m high, the upper surface of which was slightly hollowed out" about 1.0 m east of the menhir.
The name Pierre à huile ( German oil stone ) could be traced back to old sacrificial rituals or a joking derivation from the name of the Grand Menhir de la Garde , which is also known as Pierre à vinaigre ( German vinegar stone ) and is located about 300 m in the northeast before it is laid found.
The menhir has been under monument protection as a monument historique since 1976 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Michel Gruet, updated by Charles-Tanguy Le Roux: Mégalithes en Anjou . Cheminements, Le Coudray-Macouard 2005, ISBN 2-84478-397-X , p. 74 (French, first edition: 1967).
- ↑ Entry no. PA00109052 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
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Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 38.8 " N , 0 ° 49 ′ 51.2" W.