Alignement de la Grée Galot

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The alignment of the Gree Galot, also known as alignment of the Croix des Pierres Blanches or alignment of the Orme from above, is a megalithic alignment located on the Lusanger in the Loire-Atlantique department.

Description: The alignment was mentioned for the first time by Ogée in 1788 in his Archaeological Dictionary. It then has seven stones. By the middle of the 19th century, only five remain visible, as today. The alignment was set at a height of 42 m above the Port Sablon Creek and the Cher River. It stretches from east to west 13 m long. Only two stones are still standing (stones n°2 and n°3 from the west). The first menhir is a 2.35 m long stone of sandstone and 0.60 m wide now lying on the ground. The second menhir is made of quartz sandstone. It is 1.20 m high by 1.10 m wide. The third menhir, of the same nature, is 2 m high by 1.40 m wide. The fourth is a 2.32 m long quartz slab with a width of 0.83 m. The fifth stone is a block of quartz that was broken in two parts in 1825 to build a bridge on the Dear, but because of their...