Quadrilatère du Manio
The Quadrilatère du Manio ( German "Viereck von Manio" - also called Manio III ) is a stone enclosure . It is located 500 m north of Manio, on a hill in the north of Carnac in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France .
Stone enclosures are a rare form of stone setting . In the megalithic complexes of Brittany , which are formed from a large number of menhirs , a distinction is made between alignments (rows of stones), stone circles (also semicircles) and stone enclosures ( enceintes ). Its origin is unclear.
The north-east-south-west oriented quadrangle of Manio is an idealized restored trapezoidal enclosure about 37.0 m long at the end of the 19th century, which is about 7.0 m wide in the west and about 10.0 m in the east. A menhir indicateur, the Géant du Manio stands about 50.0 m south.
The square from the Neolithic Age consists of approximately 1.0 m high granite blocks that originally delimited a tumulus that has now died out .
The megalithic systems began to evoke a kind of esoteric passion in the 18th century. In 1781 a Druid order was even created. The order, valid as a sect, was opposed in 1836 by the General Inspector for Monument Preservation, Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870). He gave the order to compile an inventory of the French historical monuments to be protected, in which the Quadrilatère du Manio and the menhir in 1900 were registered as Monument historique .
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ A drawing from 1887 shows it in a less straight form.
Web links
- Tumulus dit du Manio, quadrilatère et menhir de Manio in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and pictures (French)
- Description and pictures (English)
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '14.3 " N , 3 ° 3' 23" W.