Menhir de la Pierre Levée

The Menhir de la Pierre Levée is a standing stone, or menhir, at Dissay-sous-Courcillon in the Sarthe department of France. Its date is estimated from 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE by typological comparison, a method used to place such monuments within broad prehistoric periods.

The available information does not describe the stone’s appearance, size, material, setting, or present condition. It identifies the monument simply as a menhir, and no further physical details are provided.

The Menhir de la Pierre Levée has been listed as a historic monument since 24 November 1982. A published study of megaliths in Sarthe is Jean-Paul Henri Berthet’s À la découverte des mégalithes en Sarthe, issued by Berger in 1992; it runs to 72 pages, with the monument discussed on page 34.

Menhirs are large upright stones placed by people. The term comes from the Breton words maen and hir, meaning “long stone,” and entered archaeology through French antiquarians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; in modern Breton, such a stone is called a peulvan. They are especially numerous in Western Europe, including about 1,200 in north-western France alone.

Menhir de la Pierre Levée 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 la Pierre Levée", shown in the original language.