Menhirs de Monteneuf

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The right stone alignment is a megalithic site located in Monteneuf in the French department of Morbihan. The site includes 42 menhirs and nearly 400 monoliths.

History: The road along the site (now D776) is referred to as the "Road of Right Stones" on the Napoleonic cadastre. The first description of the site is due to Canon Mahé in 1825: "on a moor of this territory, on the side of St-Malo de Beignon, seven or eight Peulvans, about twelve feet high, strike the eyes of the travelers by far". The other 19th-century authors simply took Mahé's description (Cayot-Delandre in 1847, Rozenzweig in 1863). The knowledge of the site is then limited to three menhirs emerging from the moor until the fires caused by the 1976 drought reveal the existence of other stones. From 1989 to 1996, Yannick Lecerf conducted a search campaign under the auspices of DRAC. Since 2014, archaeological prospecting has taken place every year. The site is listed as historical monuments by order of 16 June 1997. In 2013, the site was integrated into the Monteneuf Landes Regional Nature Reserve. From the...