Pierre de Saillé
The menhir Pierre de Saillé (also called Pierre de Congor, Clos-Saint-Aubin or Clos-de-la-Pierre) stands north of the hamlet of Saillé and south of Guérande in the west of the Loire-Atlantique department in France .
The menhir is mentioned under the name Petra Congor in a 9th century charter. It is a cuboid stone that is about 1.6 m high, 1.2 m wide and 0.35 m thick.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the archaeologist Pitre de Lisle Dréneuc (1846–1924) mentions the stone as the remains of a dolmen. The historian Henri Quilgars (1877–1937) stated in 1911 that he was lying in a ditch. Although consideration was given to moving the menhir to nearby La Baule-Escoublac , it was finally erected and registered as a Monument historique in 1984.
The menhir of Bissin and the menhir of Keroland stand nearby.
literature
- Jean L'Helgouach: Mégalithes en Loire-Atlantique , Nantes, Association d'Études Préhistoriques et Historiques des Pays de la Loire, 1996 ( ISBN 2-905407-01-8 )
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Coordinates: 47 ° 18 ′ 35.9 " N , 2 ° 25 ′ 48.8" W.