Menhir de Kerguézennec

The Menhir de Kerguézennec is a standing stone on the commune of Bégard in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany, France. It has been classified as a monument historique since 1889. The stone was erected on the top of a small hill.

The menhir is made of local granite known as granite de Plouaret, a granite with phenocrysts of orthoclase, although it was raised on ground whose underlying rock is schist. This meant the stone had to be transported at least 500 m from the place where it was quarried to the place where it was set up.

It measures 6,25 m in height, 2,80 m in width and 1,80 m in thickness, with a perimeter of 7,20 m. Its shape is cylindrical up to a height of 5 m and then becomes rounded. A fissure caused by erosion runs through its height.

The menhir is dated by typological estimate to 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. Standing stones of this kind are most numerous in Western Europe, with about 1,200 in north-western France alone, and Brittany stands out for both the density of monuments and the variety of types. The word menhir comes from the Breton maen and hir, meaning "long stone", while the modern Breton word for such a stone is peulvan.

Menhir de Kerguézennec is a menhir (standing stone) in Bégard, France. Wikidata describes it as: menhir in Bégard, 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 Kerguézennec", shown in the original language.