Pierre Longue (Noyal-sous-Bazouges)
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The Pierre Longue (also called Menhir de Landes-Ros ) is a menhir in Noyal-sous-Bazouges , south of the D 796 road to Bazouges-la-Pérouse in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France .
The approximately 5.1 meter high granite menhir , the four sides of which are aligned with the cardinal points, was Christianized with a stone cross between 1846 and 1915 . The menhir, inclined slightly to the south, has the shape of a pyramid with four surfaces of different widths at the base (1.60 m, 0.80 m, 1.80 m and 1.70 m).
The menhir was classified as a monument historique in 1889 .
See also
- Menhirs of Brittany
- Pierre Longue for other menhirs of the same name
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France. Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
- 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, Rennes 2004, ISBN 978-2-86822-092-9 .
Web links
Commons : Pierre Longue - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Menhir de Landes-Ros, ou de la Pierre Longue in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and pictures (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '38.6 " N , 1 ° 36' 17.4" W.