La Noce de Pierres Breton: An Eured Ven (The Wedding Party) is an alignment of 77 standing stones at the foot of Menez Michael (Saint-Michel-de-Brasparts) in the hills of Brittany. Aetiological folk tales say that the stones were originally the members of a drunken wedding party, petrified for their mistreatment of a stranger.[1]
The monument was first documented in 1850 by Jean Bachelot La Pylaie,[2] but it was not studied by archaeologists until 1978. It was classified as a monument historique (historic monument) in 1968 and registered in 1980.[3]
References edit
- ^ Guide to the Menhirs and other Megaliths of Central Brittany, Lewis S., 2009, Nezert Books, ISBN 978-952-270-595-2
- ^ Sparfel, Yohann; Pailler, Yvan (2011). Inventaire des monuments du Néolithique et de l'Age du bronze dans le Finistère (PDF) (in French). Vol. I. SRA Bretagne. pp. 388–393. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ "Alignements d'An Eured Veign". POP: la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (in French). Ministère de la Culture. 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
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