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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Le Petit Ménec Alternative Name: Petit-Ménec AlignementsCountry: France Département: Bretagne:Morbihan (56) Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: La Trinité-sur-Mer Nearest Village: Kerlescan
Latitude: 47.604600N Longitude: 3.0402W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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markj99 visited on 18th Sep 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Le Petit Ménec Alignments is a full stop E of the Carnac Alignments. The stone rows wind through a small wood. There is a more intimate atmosphere in this less frequented site than in the popular massive alignments.
Catrinm visited on 5th Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Fabulous site - went befire the big alignments as a taster - better way to do them
johnstone visited on 26th Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5
TheCaptain visited on 12th Jun 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 This is a nice place to explore on a hot afternoon, a nice walk in a cool woodland filled with stones. There are hundreds of them to be seen, lined up through the woods, mostly less than a metre tall but some reach up to about 2 metres. There are round ones, pointy ones, square ones, thick ones, thin ones, indeed all shapes and sizes. Look a bit further into the woods away from the footpath and you'll find more stones.
The lines seem to get closer together, as does the spacing of the stones, the further east you go, but nothing seems very ordered or regular. From where I sit and have a contemplate, I can count 8 rows, but there are probably more hidden by trees or under walls.
Excellent. I later find out that there was once much more to be seen here, with the rows being destroyed and removed in order to build the Belle Ile lighthouse.
X-Ice visited on 16th Aug 1982 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
ShamrockStone ermine have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.8 Ambience: 4.8 Access: 4.2
You need to turn left onto the D186 main road after continuing from Kerlescan. After about 250m turn right into a minor road going past a forest, there is a clearing where you can park after about 400m.
The menhirs are in the forest on your right, arranged in a gentle curve. You don't get the same clear overview of the alignments since the view is obscured by the trees, but there is a unique magic to the stones lurking in the forest...
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