Alignements de Lampouy

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The Lampouy alignments are a set of five megalithic alignments located in the commune of Médréac in the French department of Ille-et-Vilaine.

Location: The alignments were elevated on a high plateau between 100 m and 150 m above sea level with a north-north-west/south-south-easterly slope. To the north, this slope seems to converge towards the Menhir de Guitté and to the south towards the Roche Carrée.

History: The alignments were mentioned by Danjou de la Garenne in 1850 and, under the name of tombs of the Chênot, in the reissue of 1853 of the Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Province of Brittany of Jean-Baptiste Ogée. In 1852, the so-called "Long Points" alignment and the Carrée Rock were represented in the picturesque Geography of Adolphe Orin's Ille-et-Vilaine department. Excavations undertaken in 1880-1881 at the "Long Points" site produced only ash and fragments of coal. The first detailed description of the alignments is contained in the Ille-et-Vilaine Inventory of P. Bézier in 1883. This book shows only four alignments: alignment B, known as the "Clos du Rocher", made up of...