Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix et les deux lechs du Moustoir
Locoal-Mendon, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix et les deux lechs du Moustoir : inscription par arrêté du 13 mai 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/05/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale, cromlech
- Main period of construction
- 9e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place du Village
- Commune
- Locoal-Mendon
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.68744, -3.09262
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091401
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailLeiden University Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Lech taillé très régulièrement en forme de croix massive légèrement pattée. Sur la face antérieure, croix latine gravée.
English translation
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History
Stone slab cut very regularly in the shape of a massive cross slightly patée. On the front face, a Latin cross engraved.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Saint-Méenchapelle1 mi
- Dolmen à galerie à support gravé de Mané-er-Loh, dit Mané-Brasdolmen1 mi
- Allée couverte coudée de Mané-er-Loh, dite Mané-Brasallée couverte1 mi
- Trois croixcroix monumentale1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.