Large broken er Grah menhir

The Large menhir broken of er Grah , located on the territory of the commune of Locmariaquer, in the Morbihan, is a Menhir of exceptional size (25 meters length, 3 meters of width and heavy between 280 to 300 tons), considered as the largest menhir of the western world.

This menhir, whose erection would go up in the middle of the east today with ground and broken in four pieces, without the time and the reasons of his fall being known. It was drawn up in the middle of a monumental unit associating exceptionally in the same place, the three families of monuments megalithic:

the Tumulus of er Grah,
the cairn of the Table of the merchants
the large menhir broken

According to the prehistorian Charles-Tanguy the Russet-red, the results of the last archaeological excavations show that large the menhir was not solitary: it was connected to an alignment of pits (18 other menhirs) discovered with the back of the Table of the merchants , alignment which lets suppose the existence of an old raised stone complex, set up in Indian file, which was held, aligned larger with smallest, on more than 55 meters in direction of north starting from the base of the Large menhir. All would have been cut down towards 4300 before J. - C..

The Romains would have called the large menhir “ the Column of North ” and would have allotted the function to indicate to him the entry of the Golfe of Morbihan, which lets suppose that it was still upright at that time. But some think that it is about a legend

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