Les Deux Menhirs

Les Deux Menhirs is a group of standing stones on the commune of Plougonven, in the Finistère department of France. The site is dated by typological estimate to 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. It consists today of two upright menhirs, with a third stone lying a short distance to the west.

The western menhir stands 5,20 m high and has a circumference of 4,75 m. Its pointed, needle-like form includes two fracture faces. The second menhir lies a little more than 50 m to the east. It measures 3,30 m in height and has a circumference of 5,80 m.

Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers sometimes described three standing stones at the site, although only two remain upright. The block visible a little farther west appears to have been moved and may be the missing third menhir. Both standing stones and this western block are made of porphyritic granite.

The local bedrock is schist, while the stones were brought from outcrops just over 200 m north of the site. More widely, menhirs are especially numerous in Western Europe, with about 1,200 in north-western France alone. Brittany is noted for both the density of its monuments and the variety of their forms.

Les Deux Menhirs is a menhir (standing stone) in Plougonven, France. A typological estimate: 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Les Deux Menhirs", shown in the original language.