Carved in the semblance of a human face and figure, the menhir became a statue, perhaps the first ever made.
Thus, on the menhir of Kervadel are sculptured four figures, one being that of Mercury, dating from Gallo-Roman times.
And the offering of a coin to the spirit residing in a menhir is parallel to throwing coins, pins, or other objects into sacred fountains, which, as we know, is an undisputed practice.
The menhiris very tall and smoothly rounded, and there is no possible way for the coin to have fallen into the fissure by accident.
Two menhirs, roughly hewn to simulate the human form, are yet to be found in Guernsey, Channel Islands, and formerly there was a similar menhir in the Breton village of Baud, Morbihan.
Very much first-class evidence suggests that the menhir was regarded by the primitive Celts both as an abode of a god or as a seat of divine power, and as a phallic symbol (cf.
The place in the menhir where this coin was discovered is on the south side about fifteen inches above the surface of the ground.
Disappointed at a failure like this, which for him was most unusual, Cuchulainn went away to a menhir where he sat down and fell asleep.
The central menhir or Cenn Cruaich probably represents the Solar God, and the twelve menhirs surrounding this probably represent the twelve months of the year.
The coin must have been secretly placed in the menhir by some pious peasant as a direct ex voto for some favour received or demanded.
Near the village is the Men Bixiquet, a menhir 9 feet high.
Beside the road from the village to Ile Grande is a fine menhir 24 ft.
A menhir 15 feet high is in the Lande de Lanvaux beside the road to Pleucadeuc.
On the road from Plounevez to Trégrom is a menhir 30 ft.
About a mile and a half out of Dol on the Combourg road is the Pierre du Champ Dolent, a menhir 27 feet high above ground and sunk nearly as many feet beneath the surface.
Moustéro and themenhir of Quelhuit, and the dolmens more or less ruined of S.
Near the drained marsh of Kerver is a menhir 12 ft.
By the road from Pontivy to Guingamp, at the hamlet to Belaire, is a menhir of slaty schist 15 ft.
Clos-er-Bé a dolmen called Meen-platt, and near Largneven a fallen menhir 15 ft.
Cado is a menhir standing and two others fallen; east of S.
The menhir was the starting-point of a stone row that has been plundered for the construction of a wall.
There is a blocking-stone at the eastern end, and a menhir by the ring of stones at the west end of the row.
The row connected with the great menhiris 260 feet long.
There is a menhir at Clorach, near Llanerchymedd, with a curious hunch on it, popularly called “Tyfrydog’s Thief.
A Saxon idol; probable connexion between the menhir and the worship of, 18 n.
Occasionally legend assists us to prove the mortuary character of menhir and dolmen.
A menhir is a rude monolith set up on end, a great single stone, the base of which is buried deep in the soil.
Here, close to the celebrated menhir of Dol, he and his monks built their cells.
It is the largest menhir known, but it has been broken into three pieces, some say by thunder.
The menhir is estimated to be one-third the height of Notre Dame at Paris.
Already had he crossed just half the common, when he saw the Menhir rising like a phantom in the night, and further on, the dwellings of the Korigans.
Grey dolmen and grey menhir already stand there, by the last shores, memorials of his destiny.
The Breton's eyes are slowly turning from the enchanted West, and slowly his ears are forgetting the whisper of the wind around menhir and dolmen.
Even at the present day women steal to the sole menhir standing and the rude stone pillars, with or without still ruder inscriptions, found in many parts of Brittany.
About half a mile due north-west of the church is a menhir eight feet high, situated on a mound overlooking the sea.
Grave me a cross on yonder menhir in token that the days of the Druid are numbered," he said softly, sitting down on the stone with his head bowed, as if in deadly faintness.
Then he turned a little from me, and looked at the shadow which had passed altogether from the altar stone now, and half to himself he said: "I had thought that this menhir had fallen when this came to pass.
I dreamed that I stood at the end of a narrow valley, whose sides were of tall cliffs of rough grey stone, and in the depth of the valley I saw a great menhir standing on the farther side of a black pool.
And in the midst of that circle was the pool of still, black water, and across that towered the tall menhir from a green bank on which it stood facing me.
I think that the fall of the menhir scared them, for they were yet tied where Evan left them, just before that.
He led us along the path, which I suppose his own feet and those of Morfed had worn, unless it was old as the menhir itself, and on the way he said suddenly: "Let me ask one thing of you.
And I saw that in a flash, even as he reeled back from the menhir and staggered.
We passed a great flat rock, whereon were strange markings and a hollowed basin, which stood behind the menhir near the cliff, and to this the path led, but not beyond, from the glen.
Commander Raffleton, regretting his great need of haste, explained that he had found Malvina asleep beside a menhir not far from Huelgoat, in Brittany, and was afraid that he had woke her up.
Something that she evidently connected with the vast treeless moor rising southward to where the ancient menhirof King Taramis crowned its summit.
The great broken menhir of Locmariaker with Caesar's table.
In the centre of the circle of stones a single menhir of great height still remains with three others sloped so as to form a kind of crypt.
Thus at Der Ghuzaleh a menhir about 3 feet in height is set in the centre of what when complete must have been a rectangle.
In an example at Minieh the menhir stands in the centre of a double (in part triple) circle of stones, on which abuts an elliptical enclosure.
In many cases the menhir is surrounded by one or more rows of stones.
The most simple example, the menhir or upright stone, may have served many purposes.
Both menhir and dolmen are Breton words, these two types of megalithic monument being particularly frequent in Brittany.
The line joining the centres of B and A passes through a menhir called Hauptville's Quoit away to the north-east, while that which joins the centres of C and A cuts a group of three menhirs called The Cove, lying to the south-west.
She feared the menhir no longer: its power over her was gone.
Sometimes she waited for him by the great menhir of Thrushel Coombe; sometimes at Plym Steps; sometimes in spots even more remote, haunted by the heron and the shadows of clouds.
