Menhir de Roquinarc'h

Menhir de Roquinarc'h, also called the Rocher du Diable, is a standing stone at Saint-Rivoal in the Finistère department of France. It belongs to the large tradition of megalithic monuments for which Brittany is particularly noted, both for the density of sites and for the variety of types of standing stone.

The monument is made from a block of quartzite. Paul du Châtellier attributed a height of 5 m to it, but the upper part was broken off when the stone was struck by lightning in the 1950s. The broken debris remained at the foot of the menhir after this loss.

The standing stone is dated by typological estimate to a period from 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. It was listed as a historic monument by decree of 27 mars 1961, giving its present form a formal layer of protection alongside its prehistoric origin.

The main published study is the Inventaire des monuments du Néolithique et de l'Age du bronze dans le Finistère by Yohann Sparfel and Yvan Pailler, published by SRA Bretagne in 2011 on pages 437-438. No specific legend for the Rocher du Diable is given here, and its present height cannot be stated because the top was lost to lightning.

Menhir de Roquinarc'h is a menhir (standing stone) in Saint-Rivoal, 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 Roquinarc'h", shown in the original language.