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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 standing stones and other monuments in the vicinity provide a cultural attraction and Carnac-Plage's variety of bars and clubs provide entertainment at night. There are a number of camping grounds in the woods around Carnac, some clustered around lakes such as the Étang du moulin du lac , which lies immediately west of the river Crac'h.
Additionally, around 200 stone monuments (taalos) are found in the northeastern Botiala site, most of which consist of cairns. There are a number of rows of standing stones on the eastern side of the structures, which are similar to those at Salweyn, a great cairn-held situated close to Heis. Besides cairns, the Botiala area also features a few ...
Neolithic Carnac Stones, France Stećci of medieval Radimlja necropolis, Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Cyclopean walls of the ancient Illyrian city of Daorson, Stolac, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Brownshill Dolmen, Ireland (4th millennium BC). The great capstone weighs about 100 tons. This section lists monoliths that have been quarried and moved.
A menhir (/ ˈ m ɛ n h ɪər /; [1] from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long" [2]), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age.
Locations in France include several in Brittany (two on the island of Er Lannic and two more suggested at Carnac), several in the south of France on the Causse de Blandas [14] [15] in the Cevennes, in the Pyrenees, [16] and in the Alps (e.g. the Petit Saint Bernard). One notable stone circle is in the Italian Alps. [17]
Aubrey Burl's gazetteer lists 1,303 stone circles in Britain, Ireland and Brittany ( France).Most of these are found in Scotland, with 508 sites recorded. There are 343 on the island of Ireland; 316 in England; 81 in Wales; 49 in Brittany (France); and 6 in the Channel Isles.
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