menhir de Haute-Crane

The Menhir de Haute-Crane is a standing stone at Dissay-sous-Courcillon in the Sarthe department of France. It is one of the megalithic monuments associated with Dissay-sous-Courcillon and the historic monuments of the Sarthe area.

Menhirs are large upright stones placed by people. The word comes from the Breton maen and hir, meaning “long stone,” while the corresponding word in modern Breton is peulvan. The available information gives no description of the stone’s present height, shape, material, or state of preservation.

The Menhir de Haute-Crane is dated typologically to 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. It has been registered as a historic monument since 13 February 1984. The published information includes Jean-Paul Henri Berthet’s book À la découverte des mégalithes en Sarthe, published by Berger in 1992, with the relevant reference on page 33.

Standing stones are especially numerous in Western Europe, with about 1,200 in north-western France alone. Brittany stands out for the density of its monuments and the variety of their forms, although these figures provide general context for menhirs rather than specific facts about the Menhir de Haute-Crane.

menhir de Haute-Crane is a menhir (standing stone) in Dissay-sous-Courcillon, France. Wikidata describes it as: menhir in Dissay-sous-Courcillon, 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 Haute-Crane", shown in the original language.