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Carnac at france-for-visitors.com (includes map) Online photo exhibition of the Carnac region's megaliths includes the giant menhir of Loqmariaquer, and marked and inscribed stones; An amateur's guide to visiting the Carnac stones by car; The megaliths of Carnac: Dolmen / passage graves – comprehensive list of dolmens in area with photos.
The Broken Menhir of Er Grah. The Locmariaquer megaliths are a complex of Neolithic constructions in Locmariaquer, Brittany.They comprise the elaborate Er-Grah tumulus passage grave, a dolmen known as the Table des Marchand [1] and "The Broken Menhir of Er Grah", the largest known single block of stone to have been transported and erected by Neolithic people.
In 1903, a seaside resort was created on the old salt flats, developing extensively through the 1950s to create the split Carnac of today: Carnac-ville and Carnac-plage. In 1974, a renowned hydrotherapy centre was sponsored by champion cyclist Louison Bobet , retiring after having won the Tour de France three times from 1953 to 1955.
The Kerloas menhir, the tallest standing menhir in Brittany [16] Brittany stands out in the distribution of menhirs by virtue of both the density of monuments and the diversity of types. The largest surviving menhir in the world is located in Locmariaquer, Brittany, and it is known as the Grand Menhir Brisé (Great Broken Menhir). Once nearly ...
Just like nearby Carnac, the city holds unique and rare monuments dating from the Neolithic period. Here men have left a legacy of prestigious burial structures prefiguring the era of the great pyramids. The Great Menhir of Er Grah, the Table of Merchants, the mounds of Er Grah and many other monuments decorate the landscape of Locmariaquer.
The word menhir was adopted from French by 19th-century archaeologists. The introduction of the word into general archaeological usage has been attributed to the 18th-century French military officer Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne. [3] It is a combination of two words of the Breton language: maen and hir.
Menhirs: 1172. Dolmen: 1349. Carnac stones, Brittany; Mégalithes du causse de Blandas , over 80 megaliths exist on the Blandas plateau in the Massif Central ( Gard department) in southern France. La Noce de Pierres, Brittany; Filitosa, Corsica; Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens, Gironde; Cham des Bondons, Lozère; Peyre Quillade stones, Ariège [2]
With a height of 9.5 metres this menhir is the tallest standing menhir in Brittany. A few centuries ago the top was knocked off in a thunder storm: originally it must have been over 10 metres high. The westernmost extensions of the Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture , based on a Linear Pottery culture tradition are found in eastern Brittany at Le ...