Pierre Plantée by Lacaune
The statue menhir Pierre Plantée von Lacaune (also called Pierre Plantée de Thyois or Peyro-Lebado ) is about two kilometers east of Lacaune , on a meadow not far from the D622 in the Tarn department in France .
The lichen overgrown Peyro Lebado ( German "erect stone" ) is about 3.50 meters visible and 4.50 meters in absolute height, 1.85 meters wide and 0.5 meters deep, the largest statue menhir in Europe. The details of the engraving, including a belt characteristic of the stone stelae in the region , are difficult to see because of the lichen growth and weathering. The stone was already classified as a monument historique in 1883 . The largest collection of such stones in Europe can be found in the Lacaune region and in the neighboring region of Rouergue to the northeast ; they can be explored on a 40 km long circular route.
A small collection of statue menhirs is in the Musée Fenaille in Rodez . The Frescaty statue menhir from nearby can be seen in the Musée Saint-Raymond in Toulouse .
Nearby is the statue menhir Pech-de-Naudène .
literature
- Frédéric Hermet: La Statue-menhir de Frescaty, commune de Lacaune (Tarn).
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matthias Willing: Encoded information from the Bronze Age: The statue menhirs of Rouergat (southern France). In: Ancient World . Volume 35, 2004, pp. 39–46, here: p. 39.
- ↑ Menhir dit Peyro-Lebado, Lacaune in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 43 ° 42 ′ 44 " N , 2 ° 43 ′ 35" E