Grand-Menhir, Locmariaquer

Server Costs Fundraiser 2024

Help our mission to provide free history education to the world! Please donate and contribute to covering our server costs in 2024. With your support, millions of people learn about history entirely for free every month.
$3890 / $18000

Illustration

Mark Cartwright
by
published on 12 August 2014
Grand-Menhir, Locmariaquer Download Full Size Image

Three of the remaining pieces of the Grand-Menhir at the Neolithic site of Locmariaquer in north-west France. The menhir once stood 20 metres high and weighed 280 tons. It toppled and broke into four pieces c. 4,000 BCE, a few hundred years after its original positioning.

Remove Ads
Advertisement
Subscribe to this author

About the Author

Mark Cartwright
Mark is a full-time writer, researcher, historian, and editor. Special interests include art, architecture, and discovering the ideas that all civilizations share. He holds an MA in Political Philosophy and is the WHE Publishing Director.

Cite This Work

APA Style

Cartwright, M. (2014, August 12). Grand-Menhir, Locmariaquer. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/2922/grand-menhir-locmariaquer/

Chicago Style

Cartwright, Mark. "Grand-Menhir, Locmariaquer." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified August 12, 2014. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/2922/grand-menhir-locmariaquer/.

MLA Style

Cartwright, Mark. "Grand-Menhir, Locmariaquer." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 12 Aug 2014. Web. 26 Jul 2024.

Membership