Menhir de Menou Glas
DatedEst. 2800–1800 BCE
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Le menhir de Menou-Glas est situé à Landebaëron dans le département français des Côtes-d'Armor.
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The Menhir de Menou Glas is a standing stone at Landebaëron in the Côtes-d'Armor department of France. It lies about 300 m south of the allée couverte de Ros-Vras, at the top of a slope.
The menhir measures 1,70 m high, 1,65 m wide and 0,90 m thick. It is made from local light-coloured granite with two micas and a layered structure. The monument survives as an upright stone.
The Menhir de Menou Glas is dated by typological estimate to a period from 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. It was registered as a historic monument in 1969.
Menhirs are large upright stones placed by people. The term comes from the Breton maen and hir, meaning “long stone”, and was introduced into archaeology through French antiquarians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Brittany is notable for the density and variety of standing stones; north-western France alone has about 1,200 menhirs.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Menhir de Menou-Glas", shown in the original language.
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Menhir de Menou Glas is a menhir (standing stone) in Landebaëron, 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 Menou-Glas", shown in the original language.
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Le menhir de Menou-Glas est inscrit au titre des monuments historiques en 1969.
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Le menhir mesure 1,70 m de hauteur pour 1,65 m de largeur et 0,90 m d'épaisseur. C'est une dalle en granite local, de couleur claire, feuilleté à deux micas. Il est situé à environ 300 m au sud de l'allée couverte de Ros-Vras, en haut d'une pente.
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Bibliographie
Loïc Langouët, Les mégalithes de l'arrondissement de Guingamp, Institut Culturel de Bretagne, 2006, 92 p. (ISBN 9782868221018), p. 37
Articles connexes
Sites mégalithiques des Côtes-d'Armor
Liste des monuments historiques des Côtes-d'Armor
Portail du mégalithisme Portail des Côtes-d’Armor Portail des monuments historiques français
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Menhir de Menou-Glas”, translated from French. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Breton and French menhirs
A menhir is a large upright stone placed by humans. The word comes from the Breton maen and hir, "long stone", and entered archaeology through French antiquarians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; in modern Breton the word for such a stone is peulvan. Menhirs 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 largest known menhir is the Grand Menhir Brisé at Locmariaquer. It once stood nearly 20.6 metres high, and now lies fractured in four pieces; whole, it would have weighed some 330 tonnes. Stones in the Carnac area were hewn from local granite by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany. At Carnac more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones form the largest such collection in the world, arranged in groups of alignments that stretch for four kilometres. The stones were erected at some point in the Neolithic, probably around 3300 BCE, with some perhaps as early as 4500 BCE. Elsewhere, the Cham des Bondons in the Cévennes is the second largest concentration in France, and a menhir 4.5 metres tall stands against Le Mans Cathedral, moved there in 1778 when its dolmen was destroyed.
Dating a menhir is difficult, because standing stones are usually hard to date and were put up in many different periods.
Folklore: a Christian legend held that the stones of Carnac were pagan soldiers who had pursued Pope Cornelius and were turned to stone by him. Modern beliefs link the stones with Roman and Christian occupation, even though they date from 4500 to 3300 BCE.
When visiting, look at how the stones taper towards the top and at how the alignments run across the slope.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Menhir, Wikipedia: Carnac stones, Wikipedia: Locmariaquer megaliths, Wikipedia: List of menhirs · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dated moments in the story
- 1969
Le menhir de Menou-Glas est inscrit au titre des monuments historiques en 1969.
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Dates
Est. 2800–1800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for menhirs in France; this site has not been dated itself. Standing stones are associated with the Beaker people of the European late Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 2800-1800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
France
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- Coordinates
- 48°38′15″ N, 3°12′15″ WFor a GPS or map app: 48.63760, -3.20410
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- allée couverte de Ros-Vras0.3 km N
- menhir de Camarel2.8 km N
- Lit de Saint-Jean3.8 km E
- Menhir de Kerguézennec5.5 km W
- Menhir de Minhir7.7 km SW
- Menhir de Pergat12 km SW
- Groupe de cinq stèles gauloises à Saint-Agathon12 km SE
- Motte féodale de Penn-Ar-Stank13 km SW
- Dolmen de Tossen-ar-Run16 km NE
- Dolmen de la Chapelle des Sept-Saints16 km W
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