Statue menhir of Caramat

The Statue menhir of Caramat is an engraved rock as Statue menhir was identified and at a place called Caramat in Puyvalador in the department of Pyrenees-Orientales in France in the eastern Pyrenees is.

It was discovered in 1992 by a farmer while deep plowing and placed near the place where it was found. It is 3.50 m high and 20 cm thick and has depressions that represent eyes.

See also

• Dolmen and menhirs of the Midi

literature

• Bruno Marc: Dolmens et Menhirs en Languedoc et Roussillon. 27 Circuits de Découverte Prehistorique. Les Presses du Languedoc, Montpellier 1999, ISBN 2-85998-190-X .
• Jean-Philippe Bocquenet: La statue-menhir de "Caramat" en Capcir (commune de Puyvalador, Pyrénées-Orientales) . In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française , Vol. 92 (1995), No. 4, pp. 459-462. doi : 10.3406 / e.g. 1995.10063
• Jean Abélanet: Itinéraires mégalithiques: dolmens et rites funéraires en Roussillon et Pyrénées nord-catalanes , Canet, Trabucaire, 2011, ISBN 978-2-84974-124-5 .

Web links

• Video of the find situation (French; 1994)

Coordinates: 42 ° 38 '54.3 "  N , 2 ° 6' 59.7"  E