page_title: List of Menhirs
section_title: France
hierarchical_section_title: List of Menhirs / France
caption_attribution_description: English: The Kerloas Menhir, near Plouarzel in Brittany, France. With a height of 9.5 meters this menhir is the tallest standing menhir in Bretagne. A few centuries ago the top was destroyed in a thunder storm: originally it must have been over 10 meters high. (See: J. Briard: The Megaliths of Brittany) Français&#160;: Le menhir de Kerloas près de Plouarzel a une hauteur de 9.5 mètres ce qui en fait le plus grand menhir de Bretagne. Son sommet a été détruit par un éclair. Sa hauteur originale devait dépasser les 10 mètres.
context_page_description: The following is an incomplete list of Menhirs
context_section_description: Brittany stands out in the distribution of menhirs by virtue of both the density of monuments and the diversity of types. The largest surviving menhir in the world is located in Locmariaquer, Brittany, and it is known as the Grand Menhir Brisé (Great Broken Menhir). Once nearly 20.6 m (68 ft) high, today, it lies fractured into four pieces, but it would have weighed near 330 tons when intact. It is placed third after the Thunder Stone in St. Petersburg and the Western Stone in the Western Wall as the heaviest object moved by humans without powered machinery.
  A 4.5 meter menhir can be seen on the side of Le Mans Cathedral. It was moved there in 1778 when the dolmen it was associated with was destroyed.
  Alignments of menhirs are common, the most famous being the Carnac stones in Brittany, where more than 3000 individual menhirs are arranged in four groups and arrayed in rows stretching across four kilometres. Each set is organised with the tallest stones at the western end and shorter ones at the eastern end. Some end with a semicircular cromlech, but many have since fallen or been destroyed.
  The second largest concentration of menhirs in France is at the Cham des Bondons, which is located on high open limestone plain in the granitic Cévennes. Today, the site is protected by the Parc National des Cévennes. From the time pastoralism was established, the site was kept open by controlled burning and grazing.
  On the island of Corsica, menhirs are found in Filitosa, a megalithic site in southern Corsica. The period of occupation spans from the end of the Neolithic era and the beginning of the Bronze Age, until around the Roman times in Corsica.
caption: The Kerloas menhir, the tallest standing menhir in Brittany[5]
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