Gwernangoue alignment

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Guernangoué's alignment is a ruined megalithic alignment located in Roudouallec, Morbihan, France.

History: A menhir of the site is classified as historical monuments by order of 12 May 1925.

Description: The alignment was damaged during the 1967 re-memberment and its disappearance seemed certain until its rediscovery in 1998: from the initial alignment there are only three menhirs left, of which only one is still standing. Menhirs are made of greenish-coloured Cambrian shale block. The erect menhir is 4.25 m high with a width of 1.60 m and a thickness of 1.05 m. The first lying menhir is 4.15 m. It has a decor engraved in a trapezoidal "carton" with a pricked shape of 0.75 m by 0.85 m, with a wide curved stem at the top to the right. The second lying menhir wears about twenty cups.

Philippe Gouézin, Les megalithes du Morbihan intérieur, Rennes, Institut culturel de Bretagne and Centre régional d'archéologie d'Alet, Coll. « Archaeological heritage of Brittany...