Roche au Diable

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Roche au Diable

The menhir de la Roche au Diable ( German  Devil's Rock ) is a menhir about 300 m southeast of Sougéal , near the road D91 and the Couesnon river on the border with Normandy in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in France .

The granite menhir has a rectangular pyramid shape, slightly tapered at its end. It is a stone about 3.0 m high, 1.9 m wide and a maximum thickness of 1.2 m.

See also

literature

  • Jacques Briard , Loïc Langouët, Yvan Onnée: Les mégalithes du département d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Rennes, Institut culturel de Bretagne et Center régional d'archéologie d'Alet, coll. "Patrimoine archéologique de Bretagne", 2004 p. 115 ISBN 9782868220929
  • 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 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '16.2 "  N , 1 ° 31' 1.2"  W.