Pierre Longue du Bouchet

Pierre Longue du Bouchet is a menhir at Gennes, in the French department of Maine-et-Loire. It is classified as a megalithic site in France, where such monuments include dolmens, covered alleys (allées couvertes), menhirs, cromlechs, tumuli, groups of stones and polissoirs.

The standing stone is formed from a flat, tapering slab with a triangular shape. It measures 3,60 m high. The available information does not describe its setting, surface details, orientation or condition beyond its form and height.

The monument is dated between 4500 BCE and 3300 BCE by typological estimate. No excavation findings, construction sequence, archaeological finds or precise research history are given for this site, so the basis for its wider archaeological significance cannot be stated from the available information.

Pierre Longue du Bouchet was registered as a historic monument by decree of 3 October 1990. Its recorded name and location identify it as part of the megalithic sites of Maine-et-Loire. No local names, legends or stories connected with the stone are given in the available material.

Pierre Longue du Bouchet is a megalith (abstract root) in Gennes-Val de Loire, France. Wikidata describes it as: megalith in Gennes, France. A typological estimate: 4500 BCE to 3300 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Pierre Longue du Bouchet", shown in the original language.