Pierre Longue (Landepéreuse)
The Pierre Longue is a menhir on the Rue du Tilleul at the junction to Tilleul-en-Ouche southwest of Landepéreuse in the Eure department in Normandy in France .
The Pierre Longe is a sandstone block rounded at the top, which has a hole at the top that does not cross it. It is 2.2 meters high with an average width of 1.8 meters and a thickness of 0.7 to 0.8 meters. Excavations carried out in 1910 revealed that there were eleven large round blocks with a diameter of 0.6 meters and forty small wedge stones with a diameter of 0.2 meters.
Longue Pierre is also called the Pierre Longue by Guitté in the Côtes-d'Armor 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 Ille-et-Vilaine department , and eleven more copies in Brittany alone.
The menhir has been registered as a Monument historique since 1911 .
See also
literature
- Jacques Briard , Loïc Langouët , Yvan Onnée : Les mégalithes du département d'Ille-et-Vilaine (= Patrimoine archéologique de Bretagne. ). Institut Culturel de Bretagne et al., Vannes et al. 2004, ISBN 2-86822-092-4 , pp. 56-61.
Web links
- Entry no.PA00099465 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 16.4 " N , 0 ° 36 ′ 37.4" E