Rows of stones from Lagatjar
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The stone rows of Lagatjar ( French Alignements de Lagat-Jar ) are located on the Crozon peninsula in the Finistère department , in Brittany in France near Camaret-sur-Mer . They are said to have originally consisted of up to 400 stones, so that the total length of the main structure previously reached 600 meters. Many of the overturned stones made of white quartzite were erected again in 1928, so that the rows now consist of 72 menhirs.
The longest row consists of 42 stones and is around 200 meters long today. A row of 13 blocks begins at its northeast end, and the third row of 17 large menhirs lies in the southwest . This shows that there were rows of stones here that correspond in size to those of Carnac .
literature
- Jacques Briard : The Megaliths of Brittany . Gisserot, Paris 1991.
- Jean-Marie Bachelot de La Pylaie : Études archéologiques et geographiques mêlées d'observations et de notices diverses . Deprez-Parent, Bruxelles 1850 (reprint: Société archéologique du Finistère, Quimper 1970).
- Charles Bénard Le Pontois, Gaston Belhommet, A. Chabal, Restoration of the alignements mégalithiques de Lagatjar en Jamaret (Finistère). Bulletin et Mémoire d'Institut finist. d'études préhistoriques et Musée préhistorique Pennuirch 5, 1927–1928, 4–10. Quoted from Bibliographie générale des travaux palethnologiques et archéologiques, Bretagne, Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France 49/9, 1952, 6. http://www.persee.fr/doc/bspf_0249-7638_1952_num_49_9_8047
Web links
- Alignements mégalithiques du Toulinguet in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Loius Calvez: La presqu'île de Crozon - Histoire - Art - Nature . In: Monographies des villes et villages de France . 2nd Edition. 2008, ISBN 978-2-84373-744-2 , ISSN 0993-7129 , pp. 19 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '24 " N , 4 ° 36' 34" W.