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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDozens of standing stones, erected over 7,000 years ago, have been demolished to make way for a DIY store near Carnac, in Brittany, in North West France. Some 37 stones, measuring between 0.5 \u2013 1.5m tall, were removed despite the fact the site had long been on France\u2019s National Archaeological Map. The stones, moreover, had been submitted to the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (although the application had not yet been approved). checks, damage to a site of archaeological value has not been established\u2019, but Obeltz maintains that archaeological investigation into the area had not been sufficient. Salon IF reported a shocking destruction in France \u2013 this is the report, verbatim from Salon IF issue 514. Dozens of standing stones, erected over 7,000 years ago, have been demolished to make way for a DIY store near Carnac, in Brittany, in North West France. Some 37 stones, measuring between 0.5 \u2013 1.5m tall, … <\/p>\n
The region of Carnac is famous for its ancient \u2018menhir\u2019 – heavy, raised standing stones. Indeed, the area is often described as \u2018the French Stonehenge\u2019, with over 3,000 stone megaliths at the two sites of Menec and Kermario. There, the stone columns are arranged in long, straight rows and, according to the Carnac Tourist Office, it is the largest gathering of this type of standing stone in the world.
The land at the centre of the recent controversy, along the Montauban activity zone, had been granted a building permit by the local mayor’s office in August 2022 and construction of the new store, \u2018Mr Bricolage\u2019, was already underway. According to local amateur archaeologist, Christian Obeltz, who had originally raised concerns about the \u2018brutal developments\u2019, a bulldozer destroyed the stones overnight.
The Regional Office of Cultural Affairs for Brittany, the body responsible for the protection of the monument, said \u2018Given the uncertain and in any case non-major character of the remains, as revealed by<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ci6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3FrzX9ySGNlBb_PpcIZPKHq5zH9ZvdNZQvuJeGA4bnQcTijBS62VFy3QFaOzcuQhhGj9DAxaJbB4BXi04wTvjVUSRDy2jEQ5K9YaY9CopmLGqwv3phZ3qfJlIzurHkd_X3N36erLu84JOnybeweKnJ6MJsOvyg=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/5557bc147d34993782f185bde\/images\/8108c9c8-2a84-8146-115c-0836555c5e10.png\")
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‘The Chemin de Montauban site included two intersecting rows of small granite stelae, each spreading out over fifty meters in length. One had been exactly in its original place for 7,000 years,’ according to Obletz. ‘The small menhirs of the Chemin de Montauban were undoubtedly one of the oldest sets of stelae in the town of Carnac’ believed to date between 5480 and 5320 BC, ‘the highest dating obtained for a menhir in the west of France’.
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