Pierre Longue (Iffendic)
The menhir Pierre Longue is located behind the La Petite Barre farm a few kilometers south-southeast of the village of Iffendic near Rennes in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France .
description
The menhir made of pink pudding stone ( French poudingue ) is 4.12 meters high and 1.45 meters wide.
Pierre Longue are called the Pierre Longue of Landepéreuse in Eure , the Pierre Longue of Le Croisic in the Loire-Atlantique , the 4.3-meter Pierre Longue of Guitté in Côtes-d'Armor and the once over seven meters high Pierre Longue from Cuguen in the Ille-et-Vilaine department and eleven other examples in Brittany alone.
It is surprising that this block was preserved and not smashed or used for stone structures, especially since legend has it that treasure is buried at its base. It is accessed from the “La pierre longue” hiking trail.
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
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annotation
- ↑ Pudding stones are ancient-tertiary conglomerates with heavily unrolled flint and sandy, quartzitic or phosphorous binders with or without glauconite grains. Key fossils are unknown from them, so the age cannot be determined. Similar to English pudding stones, they are placed in the Paleocene, but they may be younger.
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 56 " N , 2 ° 1 ′ 22" W