Megaliths, a sustainable heritage?

Name: Megaliths, a sustainable heritage?
Start: 2022-09-16T19:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-16T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Menhir dit de Saint-Duzec

Megaliths erected in the Neolithic many have been destroyed: recovery, ignorance, greed, religious fanaticism ... have overcome these stone monuments however made to defy time

Friday 16 September 2022, 19:30Passed

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O. Guérin

Megaliths**: a lasting heritage?** Megaliths have been around for millennia. These edifices were made to last while the other traces of the life of the Neolithic men are excessively tenuous. Time has preserved granite megaliths, but man, for various reasons, has often recovered them, "recycled", transformed, destroyed… and sometimes even fixed his mistakes by restoring them…

About the location

Menhir dit de Saint-Duzec

Route du menhir, 22560, Pleumeur Bodou

Côtes-d'Armor
Bretagne

The menhir of Saint Uzec was Christianized in the second half of the 17th century. Surmounted by a cross, his sculptures - once painted - represent the Passion of Christ. The mass of the menhir, its size (5m90 above the ground), its back furrowed with vertical lines reminiscent of a mourning mantis, the summit cross and sculptures give it its singular silhouette. A unique and particularly impressive monument that illustrates the considerable efforts made by the clergy in the 17th century to spread and strengthen the Faith among peasant populations.
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