The Kermario monument is the largest of all Carnac "groups of standing stones". It stretches over 1,100m and consists of over 980 stones. As in Le Menec, the monument lies south-west to north-east, but the lines are less regularly spaced. Scale model of the Kermario alignments between Le Manio on one side and the Kerloquet pond on the other.
At the western end, 10 lines cover an area 100m wide. Some of the blocks are quite large (over 3m high). Some 400m away, near the "Petite Métairie", there are 9 lines and further east, even fewer as a result of roads or quarries encroaching on the monument. The stones also become smaller and their layout is less clearly defined. The alignments peter out altogether after 850m, just before the Kerloquet reservoir.
The structure reappears on the eastern side of the pond and forms the "Manio group" of standing stones. This consists of 9 lines spread over a distance of 200m and a width of 45m. This part of the Kermario monument is sometimes regarded as independent from the main group. The stones continue over the recognisable hump of a tumulary mound marked by a large menhir set apart from the rest of the lines.
The Kermario monument is the largest of all Carnac "groups of standing stones". It stretches over 1,100m and consists of over 980 stones. As in Le Menec, the monument lies south-west to north-east, but the lines are less regularly spaced. Scale model of the Kermario alignments between Le Manio on one side and the Kerloquet pond on the other.At the western end, 10 lines cover an area 100m wide. Some of the blocks are quite large (over 3m high). Some 400m away, near the "Petite Métairie", there are 9 lines and further east, even fewer as a result of roads or quarries encroaching on the monument. The stones also become smaller and their layout is less clearly defined. The alignments peter out altogether after 850m, just before the Kerloquet reservoir.The structure reappears on the eastern side of the pond and forms the "Manio group" of standing stones. This consists of 9 lines spread over a distance of 200m and a width of 45m. This part of the Kermario monument is sometimes regarded as independent from the main group. The stones continue over the recognisable hump of a tumulary mound marked by a large menhir set apart from the rest of the lines.
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