La Noce de Pierres

La Noce de Pierres (Breton: An Eured Ven, the Wedding Party) is an alignment of 77 standing stones at the foot of Menez Michael (Saint-Michel-de-Brasparts), in the hills of Brittany, France. The catalogue lists it as a stone row with a typological dating estimate of 3300 to 2500 BCE.

Folk tales explaining its origin say that the stones were originally the members of a drunken wedding party, petrified for their mistreatment of a stranger. The name reflects this story.

The monument was first documented in 1850 by Jean Bachelot La Pylaie, but it was not studied by archaeologists until 1978. It was classified as a monument historique, a historic monument, in 1968 and registered in 1980. No excavation results or dated finds are recorded for it.

Brittany holds some of the densest megalithic landscapes in Europe. The Carnac stones, near its south coast, include more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones hewn from local granite, forming the largest such collection in the world. The stones were erected at some stage in the Neolithic, probably around 3300 BCE, though some may date from as early as 4500 BCE. Three major groups of rows are called Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan.

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