Alignements du Haut Brambien

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The alignments of the Upper Brambian are megalithic alignments extending over the Upper Brambian Landes, riding on the communes of Plumherlin and Saint-Gravé, in Morbihan. According to several authors, including Hippolyte Violeau (Pèlerinage de Bretagne, 1859), the site had not less than 2,000 megaliths, most often large, but generally reversed. Still mentioned at the end of the 19th century, the menhirs who composed them disappeared, probably used as building stones during the digging of the Nantes Canal at Brest and the construction of the railway from Questembert to Ploërmel. François-Marie Cayot-Délandre described them in 1847:

"It is... the so-called High Brambian moorland, which has so many blocks of stone in a perimeter of 7 to 8,000 metres... This place, which is very little visited and therefore little known, is truly remarkable by the number, dimensions and arrangement of the huge blocks that litter the ground. The number of these stones is estimated at 2,000. Few of them are vertical; Almost all are overturned or may never have even been up. (...). It's impossible to return...