Menhir de Champ-Dolent
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Menhir de Champ-Dolent
Menhir of the 'Field of Woe'.
Original 'normally coloured' DNG manipulated using Adobe Lightroom 3.
Currently the largest standing stone in France. An easy walk from Dol de Bretagne.
The Menhir stands 9.5m high with an estimated weight of 150 tons.
According to legend, the menhir fell from the skies to separate two feuding brothers who were on the point of killing each other. This legend is said to account for the name "Champ Dolent" which means "Field of Sorrow". In reality, the word dolent is more likely to derive from Breton ‘dolenn’ ("meadow").
Another legend states that the menhir is slowly sinking into the ground, and the world will end when it disappears altogether.
It is not precisely dated, but recent scholarship suggests that Brittany's menhirs were erected c. 5000–4000 BC.
Original 'normally coloured' DNG manipulated using Adobe Lightroom 3.
Currently the largest standing stone in France. An easy walk from Dol de Bretagne.
The Menhir stands 9.5m high with an estimated weight of 150 tons.
According to legend, the menhir fell from the skies to separate two feuding brothers who were on the point of killing each other. This legend is said to account for the name "Champ Dolent" which means "Field of Sorrow". In reality, the word dolent is more likely to derive from Breton ‘dolenn’ ("meadow").
Another legend states that the menhir is slowly sinking into the ground, and the world will end when it disappears altogether.
It is not precisely dated, but recent scholarship suggests that Brittany's menhirs were erected c. 5000–4000 BC.
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