Pierre Longue (Cuguen)

Pierre Longue		Pierre Longue

The menhir Pierre Longue (also called menhir de la Butte or Pierre Saint-Jaouan ) is located in the hamlet of La Butte in the municipality of Cuguen in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France .

The menhir is a spindle-shaped monolith made of granite with inclusions of small-grain rock. It is about 6.5 meters high and 1.85 by 1.5 meters wide. Its circumference is seven meters at the base.

The menhir was Christianized with a stone cross in the 19th century . The Saint-Jean chapel, founded in 1704, was located near the menhir.

The menhir was classified as a monument historique in 1889 .

The Pierre Longue menhir from Noyal-sous-Bazouges, more than five meters high, is about five kilometers to the east .

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 : Menhir de la Pierre-Longue  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Menhir dit La Pierre-Longue in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
• Description and pictures (French)
• Description and pictures (English)

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 11.6 "  N , 1 ° 40 ′ 14.5"  W.