Lit de Saint-Eneour

The Lit de Saint-Eneour is a large recumbent stone with a slightly concave surface. It stands in Plounéour-Ménez in the Finistère department of Brittany, France, about one kilometre north of the church and three hundred metres east of the manoir du Penhoat.

The stone has a visible hollow in the rock. According to the local legend, this feature formed the bed in which Saint Enéour slept. Beyond this description and the traditional association with the saint, no further details of the stone’s structure or survival are given.

The monument is dated by typological estimate to 4500 BCE to 3300 BCE. Its catalogue classification is a megalith, while the local legend connects its name and hollow with Saint Enéour, the namesake saint of the parish of Plounéour.

More broadly, megalithic monuments in France include dolmens, covered alleys, menhirs, cromlechs, tumuli, groups of stones and polissoirs. Some of the oldest monuments in Europe are in western France, and Brittany’s Carnac stones form a collection of more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones.

Lit de Saint-Eneour is a megalith (abstract root) in Plounéour-Ménez, France. Wikidata describes it as: megalith in Plounéour-Ménez, France. A typological estimate: 4500 BCE to 3300 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Lit de Saint-Eneour", shown in the original language.