Menhir du Perray

Menhir du Perray is a standing stone, or menhir, at Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf in the Sarthe department of France. It is included in the historic monuments of the Sarthe and is associated with the megalithic sites of that department.

The available description does not record the stone’s height, shape, material, carving, or current condition. No separate account is given of its original setting or of any archaeological finds connected with it.

The standing stone is dated by typological estimate to 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. It was listed as a historic monument in 1984. Further background is provided by Jean-Paul Henri Berthet’s book À la découverte des mégalithes en Sarthe, published in 1992, which discusses the site on page 40.

Menhirs are large upright stones placed by people. The word comes from the Breton 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. Such monuments are especially numerous in Western Europe, with about 1,200 in north-western France alone.

Menhir du Perray is a menhir (standing stone) in Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf, France. Wikidata describes it as: menhir in Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf, 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 du Perray", shown in the original language.