#menhirs

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[jareckiworld]

Jaroslav Paur (1918-1987) — Urban Menhirs II [oil on canvas, 1973]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Menhirs of the old Mill in the Normandy region of France

French vintage postcard

[juliakristeva]

The Pipers, Cornwall. Circa 1920. Published by A.H. Hawke.

[basilepesso]

...et une débilité administrative de plus... >>>> "Alors comment un tel couac a-t-il pu se produire ? Selon la mairie, la DRAC avait placé le site en zone de prescription dans l’ancien Plan d’occupation des sols (POS). Mais pas dans l’actuel Plan local d’urbanisme (PLU), de la responsabilité de la municipalité pourtant. « Si on avait su, on aurait fait autrement ! » a réagi le maire de Carnac, Olivier Lepick indiquant ne pas avoir été au courant que la zone était référencée, et renvoie vers la Drac. « Nous sommes extrêmement attentifs à ce genre de choses, nous regardons les zones de préinscription archéologique. Dans ce dossier, de notre côté, nous avons respecté scrupuleusement la législation. » s’est-il défendu auprès du quotidien local." (Aussi sur Fb, 8 juin 2 023) Article du Parisien : “Polémique à Carnac après la construction d’un Mr Bricolage sur un site de menhirs“

[prose2passion]

Mr Bricolage indeed.

Also note that the name of the archaeologist mentioned in the story is only two typos away from Obelix.

[uk3d]

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Archaeology: French Archaeologists Decry the Loss of 7,000-Year-Old Standing Stones on a Site That Was ‘Destroyed’ to Make Way for a DIY Store Local Officials Argue That the Site has 'Low Archaeological Value.'

— Artnet News | June 9, 2023

Megalithic alignments in Carnac, Brittany, in north western France. Photo: Galivel F/Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Dozens of prehistoric standing stones in Carnac, southwest France, have been removed to make way for a retail store. Debate is raging among historians, politicians, and cultural authorities as to whether this constitutes damage to a site of archaeological value.

“The site has been destroyed,” local archaeologist Christian Obeltz told AFP on June 7.

According to Obelitz, some 39 menhirs, the term for such standing stones, standing up to 40 inches-high, were lost. They are estimated to date back some 7,000 years, based on carbon dating conducted in 2010.

The local mayor’s office granted a building permit in August 2022 for a store to be put up by the chain Mr. Bricolage, which sells home improvement and do-it-yourself goods, and has a store under construction there, per AFP.

Isabelle Chardonnier, director of the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs for Brittany, attempted to “clarify the reality,” telling News in France that only four of the 39 stones potentially had archaeological value. As for 39 valuable objects being destroyed, she said, “the reality is absolutely not that.” The office said that some of the menhirs had previously been moved, meaning it was not a historical arrangement.

Mayor Olivier Lepick told AFP that he adhered to the law, and that inspections had found items of “low archaeological value.” The land in question is not a protected archaeological site, though it is near one.

For his part, Obeltz thinks local authorities did not do their due diligence. “There weren’t archaeological excavations in order to know if the stones were menhirs or not,” he told AFP.

French far-right politician Éric Zemmour tweeted on Thursday that ancient stones had been “massacred.”

Carnac, in the Brittany region, is known for grand fields of megaliths, some 3,000 of them standing in two protected areas that stretch over about four miles. The exact purpose of the standing stones is unknown. Some theories suggest sacred or funereal purposes.

In any case, according to the regional directorate: “The damage to a site of archaeological value has not been established.”

The Mr. Bricolage group told AFP that it “sincerely regretted the situation.”

[sspacegodd]

Inexplicable boulders at a sphere funeral.

[illustratus]

Stonehenge with a carriage and travellers on horseback by James Ross

[jareckiworld]

Jaroslav Paur (1918-1987) — Urban Menhirs [oil on canvas, 1972]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Menhirs of Carnac, Brittany region of France

French vintage postcard

[rossodimarte]

[hilobiak]

Menhir of Tejis

[agentc0rn]

Day 6 - Fairy type

[beautiful-basque-country]

Solar symbol on a menhir in Aezkoa (Nafarroa).