Menhir de Créac'h Edern

The Menhir de Créac'h Edern, also called the menhir de Trémaëc, is a standing stone at Plouigneau in the French department of Finistère. It is dated by typological estimate to 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE.

The monument is a monolith of granite from Plourin. It stands about 5,50 m high, is 3 m wide and has a thickness of 1 m. It remains upright in its original form as a single large stone.

The Menhir de Créac'h Edern was registered as a historic monument by order of 27 October 1955. Its chronology is based on typological estimate rather than an excavation date or other direct dating stated here.

A menhir is a large upright stone placed by humans. The word comes from the Breton words maen and hir, meaning “long stone”; in modern Breton, such a stone is called a peulvan. Menhirs are especially numerous in Brittany, where they take many forms. A published inventory of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in Finistère includes the site on page 140.

Menhir de Créac'h Edern is a menhir (standing stone) in Plouigneau, France. Wikidata describes it as: menhir in Plouigneau, France. A typological estimate: 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Menhir de Creac'h Edern", shown in the original language.