Menhir du Cloître (Huelgoat)

Menhir du Cloître is an upright standing stone about 8,0 m high in Huelgoat, Finistère, Brittany, France. It stands southeast of the hamlet Le Cloître and northeast of the D 764 road, about 3,2 kilometers west of Huelgoat. The monument is also called Menhir von St-Guinec.

The menhir is made from blue Brennilis granite. Its shape is described as phallic, and its flat side faces the shaft-like cave Grotte du Diable, also called Trou au Diable. As with Menhir von Kerampeulven, this alignment is a distinctive feature of the stone’s present setting.

The standing stone is dated to 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE by typological estimate. Paul du Chatellier (1833–1911) recorded another large menhir that was destroyed by stoneworkers. Local field names also indicate the former presence of additional standing stones: Peulven Pella, Peulven Mari, Peulven Arm and Peulven Bihan.

Menhirs are large upright stones placed by people. The word comes from the Breton maen and hir, meaning “long stone,” while the modern Breton term for such a stone is peulvan. Monuments of this kind are especially numerous and varied in Brittany, and about 1,200 are known in north-western France alone.

Menhir du Cloître (Huelgoat) is a menhir (standing stone) in Huelgoat, France. A typological estimate: 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. Material: granite. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Menhir du Cloître", shown in the original language.