Pierre Longue (Guitté)
The Pierre Longue , also known as Roche Longue or Roche Pointue, is a menhir east of Guitté near Dinan in the east of the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in France .
Pierre Longue is also the name of the Pierre Longue by Landepéreuse in the Eure department , the Pierre Longue by Le Croisic in the Loire-Atlantique department , the 4.1 meter high Pierre Longue by Iffendic and the once over seven meter high Pierre Longue by Cuguen , both in the department Ille-et-Vilaine , and other copies.
The quartzite menhir is 4.28 meters high, 2.2 meters wide and 1.18 meters thick. The menhir was straightened in 1979.
It is located near the alignment of Lampouy and the menhir La Roche Carrée , which stands on the border with Médréac in the Ille-et-Vilaine department .
The menhir was classified as a Monument historique in 1967 .
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
Web links
- Entry no.PA00089192 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description (French) and picture
Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 41 ″ N , 2 ° 4 ′ 2.4 ″ W.