Plumaudière stone row
The Plumaudière stone row (also called Montchauvet Alignements, Pierres du Hu, du Hou or du Heu) is a row of stones on the Champ du Houx near the hamlet of Plumaudière near Montchauvet in the Calvados department in Normandy in France . It is one of only two rows of stones ( row of stones from Bruyères ) in Normandy, rich in menhirs.
description
The Menhirs of Plumaudière were declared a Monument historique in 1976 . The registration is for a row of nine stones, but the row consists of more than a dozen stones. It seems that the megaliths are the remains of a larger row of stones. In 1870 the row of stones was described by the commission “Druid Stones Plumaudière”: In a room 55 to 60 m long and 4.5 m wide, there are 20 blocks oriented approximately from north to south, including several overturned and half buried in the ground . Some of the standing ones are more than three feet high and very irregular in shape. The stones form two parallel rows about 4.0 m apart. One of the rows consists of 14, the other only six menhirs. The smaller blocks were easier to tip over. A number of smaller stones of the same kind can be found scattered in the valley.
The menhir Pierre Hu at the north end of the row is about 3.2 meters high and 1.5 to 2.0 meters wide. In its vicinity, axes were made of diorite and Silex and discounts, scrapers and tools from flint found.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alignement de neuf menhirs de la Plumaudière in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
literature
- Pierre-Roland Giot, Jacques Briard : Protohistoire de la Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1979, ISBN 2-85882-089-9 , ( Université ).
- Jacques Briard: Mégalithes de Bretagne . Ouest-France, Rennes 1987, ISBN 2-7373-0119-X .
- Alignement de neuf menhirs de la Plumaudière in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 56 ′ 16.9 ″ N , 0 ° 42 ′ 19.6 ″ W.