With its 6,20 m off the ground, the Grande Pierre Lev\u00e9e de la Bretelli\u00e8re (Great Lifting Stone of Bretelliere) is the highest menhir in the department of Maine-et-Loire2. Fusiform, its base perimeter measures 7.70 m. It is made of granite called “Aubiers” of which a deposit exists 600 m north.<\/p>\n
The menhir has, in the lower part, on the east, north and west face, engravings representing crosses and blazons, “linked to a Christianisation of the monument”, visible only in low-level lighting. In the year 2000, P. Raux discovers, over the entire height of the north face, “a large vertical zig-zag engraved in the upper part of the right half of this face, over a length of 3.65 m” , reaching a developed length of 5.50 m3, interpreted as a serpentine sign.<\/p>\n
According to local legend, “a fairy who asked a young man in marriage was given the condition to carry this stone before midnight on the other side of the valley; she failed and the stone remained planted where she abandoned it “.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"index.php","protoplace-type":[],"class_list":["post-218","protoplace","type-protoplace","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/protoplace"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"protoplace-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace-type?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}