Menhirs de la Plumaudière

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The alignment of the Plumaudière, also called Pierres du Hu (du Hou, du Heu), is a megalithic alignment located at the Champ du Houx near the hamlet of the Plumaudière in the delegated commune of Montchauvet, France, in the department of Calvados.

Protection: Menhirs of the Plumaudière have been listed as historical monuments since 30 June 1976. This is the only example of megalithic alignment known in Normandy.

Description: The inscription of the Historic Monuments mentions an alignment of nine menhirs, but more than a dozen stones can be observed on the site. It seems that these megaliths are the remains of a larger ensemble. In 1870, a commission to study the "Druidic stones of the Plumaudière" described the alignment: "On a space measuring 55 to 60 m from north to south, and only 4.50 m wide, we counted twenty blocks, several of which were overturned and half buried in the ground. Some are still standing, they are more than 3 m high and bear no trace of hammer; they are, of the rest of very irregular form. These stones as a whole form like two parallel rows...