Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Lech Men-er-Menah
Locoal-Mendon, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le lech : inscription par arrêté du 13 mai 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/05/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- cromlech
- Main period of construction
- Age du fer, 10e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Locoal-Mendon
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.70385, -3.14693
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091404
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Ce lech, mesurant plus de deux mètres de haut, de forme tronconique à sommet arrondi, est limité par un bourrelet, qui se reproduit symètriquement en verticale. Entre ces descentes se trouvent deux croix pattées également symètriques ; l'une à l'est présente l'inscription Crux Prostlon.
English translation
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History
This lech, measuring more than two metres high, of truncated conical form with rounded summit, is bordered by a beading, which reproduces itself symmetrically in vertical alignment. Between these descents are found two patty crosses equally symmetrical; the one to the east presents the inscription Crux Prostlon.
Nearby in the register
- Lech de Pen-er-Pontcromlechunder 1 mi
- Croix de Pen-er-Pont, sur l'isthme de Locoalcroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Dolmen à galerie à support gravé de Mané-er-Loh, dit Mané-Brasdolmen2 mi
- Allée couverte coudée de Mané-er-Loh, dite Mané-Brasallée couverte2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.